Title: Counter To My Intelligence
Series: The Heroes of the Dixie Wardens MC #7
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Adult, Motorcycle Club Romance
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Sometimes the heart wants what it can’t have.
That’s the motto Silas Mackenzie, the president of The Dixie Wardens MC, has lived by since he was a young man.
Now he’s well on the way to middle age, has three grown children, and he’s lusting after a woman he should definitely stay away from.
Especially not one that his ex-girlfriend had given birth to, and happened to be only twenty seven years old.
Sawyer isn’t a young girl at heart, though.
She’s seen the inside of a jail cell for eight long years, and every one of them she spent paying for a crime she didn’t commit.
Silas Mackenzie knows as soon as he sees her that the girl has sacrificed enough.
And maybe…just maybe…so has Silas.
It’s time for Silas Mackenzie to get what he deserves, and put a little bit of happy back into Sawyer’s world, one rough, bearded kiss at a time.
“I like your vest.”
“It’s called a cut,” he muttered laughingly.
“What’s a cut?” I asked.
The hail and rain got worse, hitting the roof and the side of the garage like tiny little battering rams.
“A leather vest,” he quipped.
I giggled against his chest, turning my face so it could rest against his neck.
He growled when I kissed his exposed throat, but otherwise didn’t move.
“Joking aside, it’s my club. The cut is me. The top rocker, which is the white banner at the top, is our club name,” he said.
I felt along his back as he spoke, feeling what he was saying as he explained what each one was.
“The bottom rocker is our club’s location. We’re in Benton. We have other chapters all over the south,” he explained. “On the front is my name, club title, and the city again.”
I knew he was explaining this to me to get my mind off the fact that the roof was shaking around us, literally.
“I can’t believe Dallas hasn’t at least come to check on me,” I muttered darkly.
He tangled my hands in my hair, and I looked up at him…or where I thought he was.
“Your brother is a shit head. And I don’t think he even realizes that he is. Because if he did, he wouldn’t be telling your parents anything about how you were. My guess is that he really is worried, but he doesn’t know how to handle that worry. So, he closes himself off, telling himself that by telling your mother how he thinks you’re doing, he’s helping. Which, in reality, he’s not,” Silas said. “Maybe it’s time you had a talk with him, let him know you don’t appreciate being treated as a child.”
I agreed, and I’d already planned on doing that.
“I was going to do that today, but then he had that huge freakin’ party,” I told him darkly. “And I had to park in the street.”
He lowered his mouth down to mine.
“Well, then it’s a good thing he’s preoccupied, because right about now I could really fuck you on top of his car and he’d never even know,” he said tightly, lifting my body off the bench and laying me down on the car’s hood.
I laughed. “You know,” I said as he stripped my shorts from me. “This is my brother’s pride and joy.”
“Well your brother’s pride and joy is about to become our fuck stand,” he growled, then he was on me.
5 stars
SILAS!!!
Okay so I, like a lot of you, have been waiting patiently for his story. And it was more than worth the wait!!
Silas has a ton of responsibility. From his club to his bar to his kids he's plenty busy but he's about to get busier.
Sawyer is being released from prison after eight long years. She's suffered and has a hard time moving on from her past.
A world she was locked away from has changed a lot in 8 years. The things she thought would be waiting for her weren't and all she truly has is her best friend and a garage apartment.
Finding a job wasn't as hard as she expected for an ex-con but it seems with every step forward she takes two back, unable to overcome the guilt of her crime, if she doesn't find a way out it could easily destroy her.
Enter Silas (yay!!)
He sees a strong yet broken woman in need of help and he wants to be the one to help her. There's a tiny problem though.
He's highly attracted to her and the feeling is returned.
Having had a sort of non-relationship relationship with Sawyer's mom makes Sawyer off limits, that and the fact that she's young enough to be one of his kids.
So we have Silas denying himself what he wants because and Sawyer ignoring what she wants due to guilt.
A chance meeting by two people looking for some relief sets them down a road they can't come back from.
I'm addicted to Lani Lynn Vale's books. I fell in love with the Sebastian & Baylee in book one and have read every word written since, loving each story and character just a bit more than the one before. Silas is the one I waited for, it felt like forever but finally he's here and I couldn't have been happier with his book, by far it's my favorite in this series and will be hart to top!
I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.
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