Second Chance Love (Heaven Hill Book 6) Read Online Free Page B

that there is no one stopping you but yourself. I want you to love, I want you to laugh, and I want you to live.” His voice was hoarse as he spoke to her. “We were both put in shitty situations by circumstance, but look at us, look at me. I wear a ring on my finger and go home every night to a woman who brightens up at the sight of me; I have three amazing kids that love me. I never thought I would have that, but you gave that to me. I owe you my life now.”
    “I didn’t give you anything.” She took to straightening up the papers on the desk.
    “The hell you didn’t. You may not have known it when you suggested we use Denise, but you made my life, now I want to make yours. If you wanna be with Rooster, be with him. Give him a chance. No one in this club is going to stop you. You have my word on that. You’ve always taken care of me.” He got up and came around the desk. He pulled her up and hugged her tightly around the waist. “Let me take care of you for a change.”
    A sob broke the surface, one that she didn’t even know she was holding in. “I don’t know if I can,” she cried. “I don’t know if I have it in me to be that trusting anymore. Maybe I’m ruined.” She wiped at the tears on her face.
    “You’re not ruined, you’ve been scared because of circumstance, but you can live again. Look at Christine, look at Meredith. You are one of the baddest bitches I know,” he complimented her. “You would stare William down in the face when he was talking bad to me. No one else I knew would stand up for me with him, but you.”
    “That’s because he’d already gotten to me.”
    “Who gives a shit? You’re my sister and you’re the one who’s always watched out for me. Now I’m watching out for you, and I’m telling you to follow your heart. Will it be happily ever after? I don’t know. None of us do, but I do know that you will never forgive yourself and I will never forgive myself if you don’t. If you have to tell yourself you’re doing it to make me happy, then so be it.”
    Who was this guy and what had he done with her brother? It was amazing how a woman could change the dynamics of a guy’s mind. Could she change Rooster’s? When he found out what she’d done because of William, would he still want to be with her?
    “I see what you’re doing and I’m going to give you some unsolicited advice. Let him make his own mind up. He’s a smart man, even though he’s made some bad decisions, just like the rest of us. Don’t make up Rooster’s mind for him. That’s just gonna piss him off.”
    “Okay,” she breathed harshly. “Okay, I’ll do it. You’re right, I’m not getting any younger and I’m sick of being alone all the time,” she admitted. That had taken a lot, to tell someone out loud one of her secrets. She hated being alone and it felt like more often than not, now. That’s what she was.
    “No reason to be when there’s a decent man wanting to share his life with you.”
    She didn’t know what to say to that, she knew that was Liam giving his blessing. “Thank you.” She hugged him tightly.
    “No big thing.” He shrugged as he went to exit the office. “Oh, you better look alive ’cause he starts work here today. We’ve got him helping out with some stuff we’ve got going on.”
    Roni threw a glare at him. “I fucking hate you.”
    “You love me.” He grinned as he walked out, slamming the door harder than he had to, knocking a picture off the wall.
    Roni shook her head and walked over to pick the picture up. “Swear to God, sometimes he hasn’t grown up past thirteen.”

    Rooster pulled into the lot at Walker’s Wheels nervous as hell. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been here when it wasn’t on official sheriff business. That was the weird part about being a former officer of the law, sometimes it was hard to differentiate. He’d known; however, when he turned his badge in that his time there was done. He couldn’t take it