Road Tripped (Satan's Devils MC Utah #1) - Manda Mellett Page 0,30

thing, and I treated prospecting for the club no differently. It wasn’t that a female had to prove to be equal to the men, we had to be better than the best.

Women are inherently thought of as weak, our size belying our strength. Even though it’s the twenty-first century, women are still predominantly seen as homemakers, the ones keeping their men, the main or sole wage earners, happy, and bringing up the kids—especially in the state of Utah with its overriding view of patriarchy. Unless a woman is trained like me, men can use their larger size to keep them in their place with their fists and even without violence, terms still used in everyday vocabulary, like the ‘little woman’, are used to keep them down. Men tend to be in powerful roles and use their positions to denigrate any woman they see as a threat. A strong woman with a brain is one to be feared and to be kept controlled.

To earn my patch, I had to not only prove I was an equal, but also show the lack of a cock could be an advantage. Sure, I’m a ball-breaker, a woman who takes no shit, but if I have to, I can put away my fatigues and carry off a dress. More than once I have used that talent to make men relax their guard and get taken in.

My disguise is one that comes naturally, a lethal weapon hidden in plain sight. Pip saw the benefits immediately, and on more than one occasion has shamelessly used them.

My Satan’s Devils’ brothers? Well, they took a little longer to persuade. My credentials had meant nothing until they’d seen what I was capable of for themselves. Then, of course, just like Brute, Gears and Igor were doing right now, I had to prove I was trustworthy.

I passed with flying colours, well, I’d been through that all before when I first joined up and had to prove to the army I was more than a girl.

I gained more than my Satan’s Devils’ patch. I found my place, my home, and a new family. Would I have been happier in the SAS? Probably. Do I regret saving a life and losing what I hoped for mine instead? No, never that. A man’s alive because of me. Do I miss home and my family? Yes, but I can’t see me going back, not permanently. Here, I feel, is right where the universe wants me. And, I remind myself, my world will only stay as it is now if word of my existence, and Pip’s, doesn’t get back to Drummer. I have to be careful. Road could be the cause of me once again losing the future I’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Now pushing away from the door, I take off my cut and fold it reverently. It means something to me, almost as much as the beige beret I was so close to putting on. It’s something I’ve earned and, like any Devil, only death will part it from me. I take off my clothes, throwing most in the laundry basket. Thinking my jeans will do one more day, I put them neatly into a drawer. Then, taking out my sleep attire, I go through my nightly routine.

When I slide into my perfectly made bed, I switch off the lights but know I won’t get to sleep for a while yet. When I close my eyes, all I can see is Road.

Fuck, but he’d spent the day perplexed as if he was Alice and had stepped through the looking glass into a world completely different from the reflection he’d thought he would find. Another chapter of the Satan’s Devils, but unlike any he could have expected or visited before.

What will he think when he finds out what we’re hiding? Will he agree that we might have twisted our tenuous observance of the Satan’s Devils by-laws too far? Will he show he has strengths that we’ve not yet seen? Will he be a bonus or hindrance if he patches over, and if he won’t, will it really be curtains for him?

Since we lost Thumper, we are a man down, but won’t be if, as expected, Gears soon patches in. We keep our team tight, would there be room for one more?

Playing pool and darts, drinking beside him, I was watching Road the whole time tonight. Even when I offered to keep his glass filled, he restricted himself to only a few beers, was holding himself

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