The brother known as Hound has a reputation. Heโs all about cracking heads, having a good time, and when the Chaos Motorcycle Club needs someone to do the tough job, they call on him.
But Hound has a secret. He fell in love with a woman years ago. Sheโs untouchable. Unattainable. And even when her status changes, for Hound, it remains the same.
Keely Black had it all early and lost it all not long after. Thrown into an abyss of loss and grief, sheโs faced a life of raising two sons alone and battling the rage at all that had been ripped from them.
And why.
Words spoken in anger open Houndโs and Keelyโs eyes. For Hound, he sees heโs wasted his life loving the wrong woman. Keely sees sheโs wasting her life not opening herself to the love of a good man.
Chaos
Book 6
Can be read as a standalone
Contemporary Romance
โShe was not his. She was Blackโs. And she would always be.โ
Bring out the tissues because Hound and Keelyโs story will own you, it will reach down to your core and from it, wrench all emotion. Theirs is a story thatโs beautiful and heartfelt, difficult and forbidden. Loyalty is defied, brotherhood, tested, and feelingsโraw and realโdeepen in secret before they are pushed to the edge to either shatter or flourish.
In WILD LIKE THE WIND, Kristen Ashley marries everything we love about Chaosโthe danger, the brotherhood, the wild and wickedโwith a heartfelt romance.
Keely had found her slice of happy with Black and their two boys, until a brotherโs treachery ended in spilt blood and a broken family. All the while, the brothers had her back, theyโd never desert her, especially not Hound.
Even then, he loved her, but she was forbidden, untouchable, an ache he would forever feel. As days turned into months turned into years, it was Hound who was there for the menial and the monumental. Helping rear Blackโs boys, he was a constant for a family whoโd been thrust into a world of grief.
Almost eighteen years later, words thrown in anger change everything for Keely and Hound. Soon after, the forbidden comes to pass and the truth of it revealed threatens unforgivable consequences. But was this real or play? Was it temporary or could they dare to dream of a life re-imagined, when Keely and Black became Keely and Hound?
โโฆ he was in too deep when it began. And now he was drowningโฆ It would be her who ended it. Because no matter how much it took, how deep it dug, how empty it left him, heโd give her what she needed even if it left nothing of him, and after she was gone, he drifted to ash and blew away with the wind.โ
I loved so many aspects of the book. While the relationship took center stage showing us that you can start again and fight for the happy youโve found, there were also other threads that kept the momentum going. Activity continues to escalate for Chaos and suspense ratchets big time along the way. And as always (KA style), itโs also a story of family and friendship, brothers and sisters coming together when they need each other the most.
Poignant, suspenseful and (really really) super sexy, youโll want to re-read the moment you flip the final page.
โThatโs us, baby. Wild like the wind. Canโt rein that shit in.โ
She whirled on him, planted her hands on her slim hips and announced, โSo youโre alive.โ
He felt his mouth get tight and threw the door shut, but that was all he got in before she came at him, both hands up, and shoved him so hard at his chest, his entire torso rocked back.
That was when he felt his whole face get hard.
She didnโt hesitate to get up in that face and fuck him, fuck him, he felt her tits brush his chest, she was that close.
โYou big jerk!โ she shouted. โYou scared the shit out of me.โ
โStand down, woman,โ he growled.
โYou havenโt dropped my check in two months, Hound.โ
He couldnโt stop it.
He blinked at her and did it slow.
โYou might miss a month but you never miss two,โ she informed him of something he knew but thought she had not ever noticed.
โAs you can see, Iโm still standing,โ he told her.
โI can see that. What I hear is that Chaos has got whatever trouble theyโve got with whoever took Millie and now theyโre rubbing up against Bounty.โ
Bounty was another MC in Denver.
Theyโd never had any problem with Bounty.
Now they did.
โThink you made it clear last time I saw you that youโre outta it with Chaos, so not sure how thatโs your issue,โ he stated.
โUh, were you not there when the boys voted in Dutch as a recruit a month ago?โ
Actually, he was on maneuvers so he had not been.
Though, since he sponsored Dutch, along with every man whoโd had his patch when Black died, his official vote wasnโt really necessary.
He decided not to answer.
โI thought something had happened to you,โ she said it like it was an accusation.
He put both arms up at his sides, which he thought pretty much said it all.
It did, but she was clearly not happy about the way he did it and he knew that with the way her face screwed up, all pissed.
โYou drop my checks,โ she declared heatedly.
โGonna leave that duty to another man,โ he told her.
โWhy?โ she rapped out.
โโCause I got other shit I need to be doinโ,โ he replied, not the entire truth, not a full lie either.
โItโs because I was a bitch to you,โ she said it, straight out.
โYou didnโt say anything that wasnโt true,โ he returned, and that wasnโt a lie at all.
What he left unsaid was that her saying what sheโd said sucked dick.
โI was upset,โ she explained herself.
โThat didnโt go unnoticed,โ he shared.
โDonโt be an asshole, Hound,โ she snapped, and his brows went up as his temper caught.
โHowโs that beinโ an asshole?โ he asked.
โYouโre beinโ flippant,โ she told him.
He leaned toward her. โWoman, I donโt even know what โflippantโ means.โ
โThen you need to spend more time reading books and less time doing Chaosโs wet work,โ she shot back.
He leaned away and slowly drew a very long breath into his nose.
She glared at him.
When he had no verbal reaction to her remark, she looked around then back at him.
โFor Godโs sake, Hound, you live in a sty,โ she declared.
โGot no woman to keep the place nice for, baby,โ he drawled. โAs you pointed out. And men donโt mind they live in a sty. Itโs only women who give a fuck about that shit.โ
Her eyes got squinty. โWhy donโt you have a woman?โ
He was not discussing this with her.
โThatโs none of your fuckinโ business,โ he returned.
She threw up an arm in front of her to indicate him. โYouโre hot.โ
He did another slow blink.
He was?
โItโs a waste,โ she decreed.
Sheโd know about waste, all of what was her going without a man for seventeen years.
โYouโre worried I donโt get my wick wet enough, Keely, you can mark that off your list of things you shouldnโt stick your nose into in the first place. I get what I need. I just donโt keep it.โ
โWhy not?โ she asked.
โYou obviously wonโt feel this way, but you donโt know me so Iโll educate you that for a guy like me, you give it enough time to get time in, snatch becomes a drag and no man needs anything dragginโ on him.โ
โYou did not just say that to me,โ she bit out.
โJesus, woman,โ he boomed, looked side to side and back to her. โYouโre the one stormed in here, gettinโ up in my face and my space, puttinโ your hands on me, stickinโ your nose in shit thatโs not yours to have. Whatโs your problem?โ
โYou bring me my checks,โ she declared.
โNot anymore,โ he fired back.
โYou bring me my checks,โ she demanded.
He leaned again toward her.
โNot anymore,โ he snarled.
And then, Jesus, fuckโฆ
She was on him.
She was all over him.
Plastered down his front, hands clenched hard in his hair yanking his head down to hers, she had her mouth to his and her tongue in his mouth.
God, nectar.
Fuck, heaven.
He ripped his mouth from hers, planted a hand in her chest and shoved her back a lot harder than heโd ever touch any woman (or any woman who had not done Chaos wrong) so she reeled away five paces.
He couldnโt apologize.
He needed to draw a line.
For her.
For him.
For her boys.
For Chaos.
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