Text copyright ©2020 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. Dedication To Will, my high school sweetheart. Love you. 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 times. Kendra, Diane, Brandi, Jen, Kathy, Mindy, Barbara, Penney & 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. Table of Contents Blurb Author’s Note Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 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 Chapter 28 Epilogue 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 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 (10-13-20) Nobody Knows (11-3-20) Depends Who’s Asking (12-8-20) Valentine Boys Herd That Crazy Heifer Chute Yeah Get Bucked Souls Chapel Revenants MC Repeat Offender (Jan. 2021) Jailbait (Feb. 2021) Standalones Somethin’ About That Boy Blurb Banner Spurlock knew the moment that he walked into Kilgore High School and saw Perry Street that life was about to get interesting. Forced to move due to a problem at home, a problem in the form of his ex-best friend hating him for something that Banner’s father did, Banner doesn’t think very much could improve in his life. He left his status as king of Benton High School behind and moved to a new school where not only would he have to try out for a new football team and prove himself, but he’d also have to find a place for himself in the hierarchy. Only, the moment that he arrives, he knows that finding a place for himself won’t be too hard. Especially when his reputation follows him all the way to Kilgore, Texas. *** Perry Street hates school. She hates her peers—most of them anyway—and she hates her classes. All she wants to do is finish her senior year, graduate, and find a place that will give her a full scholarship so that she doesn’t have to be stuck here forever. That’s her goal, anyway. Then she walks into first period, on her first day of her senior year, and sits down. Seconds later, he walks in and changes every single plan she’s ever made. It isn’t long before Perry starts to fall for the bad boy who doesn’t care who he does and doesn’t impress. The boy makes her heart flutter. The boy makes her want things that she’s never wanted before. Not ever. The boy brings trouble with him that nearly kills her. Author’s Note Okay, so you might have a few questions with this timeline when it comes to Abilene, which you meet in Ask Me If I Care. (Book 4 of the SWAT 2.0 Series.) I’m going to answer these questions, but they’re going to be in Slone’s book, which will happen with him joining my new Longview Liners Football Series that I’ll be starting shortly. He will be the first book in that series, and will be an adult, unlike what he is in this particular book. He has some serious life lessons coming his way, and I need him to be a little more, erm, broken. Sorry! <3 Happy reading! Chapter 1 Cowboys are dangerous. You should never look at them from the belt down. -Rules to live by Banner “I’m not going,” I said stubbornly. My father looked at me with an aggravated expression. “Listen,” he said. “I’m tired of getting calls that you’re getting into fights with that little asshole. You’re going, and that’s that.” I ground my teeth together forcefully, trying to stop myself from saying what I really wanted to say. I knew that my dad would lose his shit if I lost my shit, and I wasn’t up to dealing with him right now. All I wanted to do was go lie down and pretend this day never happened. “Trance…” my mother said. “Viddy, don’t,” Dad ordered. “This is happening. If he doesn’t go to Ford’s, things are not going to go well. I know when things have escalated to the level that they have that they’re not going to get better. One of them needs to be removed from the situation.” Dad, sadly, was right. One of us needed to be removed, but it didn’t need to be me. It needed to be the motherfucker that was trying to make my senior year shit. Vance McInroy, a kid
