Chapter 314

For six weeks, the club had been waiting to see if Calvert and his men would retaliate, but it had been quiet. Some would say too quiet, but for others it was a welcome reprieve.

"You ready for this?" Mandy asked as Dalton slid into the driver's seat of her car.

They had been working on getting things back to normal between the two of them. It wasn't perfect, and Mandy wasn't sure it ever would be, but she loved him in a way she hadn't before. Having almost lost him, it was a deeper, fuller kind of love. She knew some people would call her crazy, but she couldn't help her feelings. He made her feel better about herself, and at the end of the day, she'd take that over the concept of a perfect love every time. They weren't perfect, but they were perfect for each other.

He smiled over at her, his eyes tired, a couple days' beard growth on his face. They'd taken to having very late nights now that her morning sickness had abated. "I haven't been more ready for anything in my life," h