Chapter Thirty-One
I barely made it back inside the safety of the concrete compound that afternoon before every single piece of my new life began to completely fall apart all over again. The intense, angry confrontation with Tyler at the downtown coffee café had left my entire body completely shaken up, and my mind was spinning in circles. His cruel, judgmental words about my choices and his vicious insults about the motorcycle club kept echoing loudly inside my head like an annoying ghost as I steered my old sedan car through the heavy open iron gates. Knox, the quiet prospect, had followed my back bumper the entire way home down the long asphalt highway road on his motorcycle, just like he was ordered to do, but despite his presence, I didn't feel safe. I didn't feel truly comfortable a
