Table of Contents Conjugal Visits Dedication Acknowledgments Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale About the Book Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Part II Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Part III Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Epilogue What’s Next? Text copyright ©2021 Lani Lynn Vale All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. I’m not sure how long this particular story has been sitting in my brain, but it felt like I literally sat down and just magically produced these words out onto the page. This book goes out to my husband. Without you, Trouper wouldn’t have been written as well as he was. Acknowledgments Golden Czermak - Photographer My Brother’s Editor & Ink It Out Editing- My editors Cover Me Darling - Cover Artist My mom - Thank you for reading this book eight million, two hundred and twenty-one times. Kendra, Lisa, Laura, Brandi, Jen, Penney, Brandi, Jen, Kathy, Mindy, Barbara & Amanda—I don’t know what I would do without y’all. Thank you, my lovely betas, for loving my books as much as I do. Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale The Freebirds Boomtown Highway Don’t Care Another One Bites the Dust Last Day of My Life Texas Tornado I Don’t Dance The Heroes of The Dixie Wardens MC Lights To My Siren Halligan To My Axe Kevlar To My Vest Keys To My Cuffs Life To My Flight Charge To My Line Counter To My Intelligence Right To My Wrong Code 11- KPD SWAT Center Mass Double Tap Bang Switch Execution Style Charlie Foxtrot Kill Shot Coup De Grace The Uncertain Saints Whiskey Neat Jack & Coke Vodka On The Rocks Bad Apple Dirty Mother Rusty Nail The Kilgore Fire Series Shock Advised Flash Point Oxygen Deprived Controlled Burn Put Out I Like Big Dragons Series I Like Big Dragons and I Cannot Lie Dragons Need Love, Too Oh, My Dragon The Dixie Warden Rejects Beard Mode Fear the Beard Son of a Beard I’m Only Here for the Beard The Beard Made Me Do It Beard Up For the Love of Beard Law & Beard There’s No Crying in Baseball Pitch Please Quit Your Pitchin’ Listen, Pitch The Hail Raisers Hail No Go to Hail Burn in Hail What the Hail The Hail You Say Hail Mary The Simple Man Series Kinda Don’t Care Maybe Don’t Wanna Get You Some Ain’t Doin’ It Too Bad So Sad Bear Bottom Guardians MC Mess Me Up Talkin’ Trash How About No My Bad One Chance, Fancy It Happens Keep It Classy Snitches Get Stitches F-Bomb The Southern Gentleman Series Hissy Fit Lord Have Mercy Quit Being Ugly KPD Motorcycle Patrol Hide Your Crazy It Wasn’t Me I’d Rather Not Make Me Sinners are Winners If You Say So SWAT 2.0 Just Kidding Fries Before Guys Maybe Swearing Will Help Ask Me If I Care May Contain Wine Joke’s on You Join the Club Any Day Now Say it Ain’t So Officially Over It Nobody Knows Depends Who’s Asking Valentine Boys Herd That Crazy Heifer Chute Yeah Get Bucked Souls Chapel Revenants Repeat Offender Conjugal Visits Jailbait Doin’ a Dime Kitty Kitty Gen Pop Inmate of the Month Standalones Something’ About That Boy For a complete updated list visit: www.lanilynnvale.com About the Book Don’t ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B. The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn’t scare me like they probably should. In fact, they only made me intrigued all the more. When it came to Troup, there was just no resisting fate when it came to the two of us. Even at eighteen, when we went our separate ways with the promise to come back to each other once we were done pursuing our careers, I knew he would always be it for me. And color me surprised when eight years after making that pact with Trouper, we were once again reunited. Only this time in an undercover FBI investigation—me, the FBI officer, and Troup call sign ‘State’ as a military liaison. Trouble always finds him. You’d do better to run far, far away. Truer words had never been spoken. From the time Troup was a young boy, he’d been in some kind of trouble. So it only goes to show when he winds up in the FBI investigation with none other than Beckham Spurlock, his high school sweetheart, things are bound to go wrong. Only, he has no idea how wrong until things go bad. Really, really bad. All it takes is saving her by hurting another for him to see the wrong side of a jail cell. To make matters worse, he has to live the next fifteen years in prison knowing that his son will grow up without him. And the woman he loves will likely move on to a man that isn’t so much trouble. PART I CHAPTER 1 People are so stupid. -Things Beckham repeats 100 times a day. BECKHAM “Who are you?” I blinked at the guy’s words. “Um, Beckham Spurlock,” I narrowed my eyes. “Who are you?” The boy—man—whatever he was, shook his head, and the hair that was covering his eyes swept out of his face. My heart all but leaped in my freakin’ chest. Oh. My. God. My boy/man was heartbreakingly sexy. As in, one look at him, and I was about to hyperventilate. I’d just asked him who he was! What the hell, Beckham? “What kind of name is Beckham?” the man-boy asked. I shrugged. “A name my parents gave me, so what the hell does it matter? I had no control of it.” My sarcastic attitude was an automatic response. I hadn’t actually meant for those words to come out of my mouth, yet they had. The man-boy’s lips twitched, and a lock of hair once again fell into his eyes. “My name is Troup. Trouper Aoki,” he held out his hand. Reflexively, I put my hand in his and shook it as I was trained to do from birth. His tattooed fingers wrapped around my small hand, and I was left stunned. Wow, he had really big hands. And his tattoos were beautiful. Honestly, I’d always thought hand tattoos were gross. But his? They were drawn
