Desert Loyalties

Mandrake:
I’ve never had anything that was truly mine, especially not a woman. For a year, I watched Skye rise from the wreckage, from bartender to something fierce and untouchable. She burned with a broken kind of strength, and it lit something inside me. I held back, gave her space to heal, to rise on her own. But I’m done waiting.
I finally claim her, and almost instantly, I’m staring down 25 years for a crime I didn’t commit.
Now I’ll fight for my freedom, fight for my club, and most of all, fight for her.

Skye:
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Mandrake:
I’ve never had anything that was truly mine, especially not a woman. For a year, I watched Skye rise from the wreckage, from bartender to something fierce and untouchable. She burned with a broken kind of strength, and it lit something inside me. I held back, gave her space to heal, to rise on her own. But I’m done waiting.
I finally claim her, and almost instantly, I’m staring down 25 years for a crime I didn’t commit.
Now I’ll fight for my freedom, fight for my club, and most of all, fight for her.

Skye:
I came to the Horsemen MC drowning in booze and guilt, pain clinging to me as a second skin. I wasn’t looking for salvation. But I found something real, a place, a purpose, a family.
And Mandrake?
He helped me face my demons. He showed me what it meant to feel again.
But I barely get to hold him before he’s dragged away in chains. Now it’s not just the courts we have to fight.
It’s the entire damn system.
There’s one thing I know for sure, no one is taking him from me, no matter what I have to do.