I know what it’s like to be judged for someone else’s sins.
Rookie
My club looked at me differently after I let the wrong woman in. Brothers who trusted me went quiet. I became the prospect who almost got people killed because I believed a pretty face and a good lie.
I rebuilt myself from that. Brick by brick. Silence by silence. Years of proving I’m not the mistake I made.
Saylor Bell knows something about that. She’s been rebuilding her whole life.
She changed her name. Left her father’s legacy in a courtroom and walked out carrying nothing but her mother’s maiden name and the weight of a town that will never let her forget.
Her father stabbed a woman to death in a parking lot. Thirty-something times. The victim was his girlfriend, who happened to be a beloved elementary school teacher. A single mom. Someone everyone adored.
Saylor was fourteen.
She didn’t do it. She couldn’t stop it. And Morgantown punishes her for it every single day.
I won’t.
Her father’s sins aren’t hers. I know that in my bones, because I’ve lived the other side of it.
But knowing she’s innocent doesn’t make her safe. A man from her father’s prison just showed up at her mother’s door. Someone online is peeling back the name she hid behind. And the club I’d die for is bleeding information from a digital wound none of my brothers can see.
I can see it. I can fix it. And I can protect the woman they all underestimated—just like they underestimated me.
This is my shot and I won’t miss.
