Emergence: Prequel (Queens Wraiths MC)

STACEY

I hated that he got to watch me hit rock bottom. The one man that, if I was the type to cheat, I’d happily have done it with, but as I wasn’t a cheater and he’d not make moves on another man’s wife, neither of us had done anything about the attraction we’d felt for each other.

Once my children came along, it was easier because I wasn’t around the clubhouse much. It was bad enough that I knew Grudge used the club whores; I didn’t want to see it or put up with their pitying looks.

Maybe I should have felt sorry for the whore that Thor was currently berating, but I couldn’t find it in me to give a flying fuck about her feelings.

I hadn’t been able to keep quiet and had asked my questions and found out some hard truths about my life.

It was that night that I realised that while I was able to put up with Grudge treating me badly, I wasn’t able to put up with his shit when it affected my kids. That might have been the night I hit rock bottom, but it was also the night that my life started again. Albeit starting over at forty-three wasn’t something that I’d ever expected to do, but if there was one thing I knew, it was that I was strong, and I’d do anything to make sure my kids didn’t go without.

In the end, it hadn’t been an issue because life caught up with Grudge, and I slowly put my life back together. And if I happened to have dreams about a certain man, there was nobody to judge me for it.