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remember the good days. She needed to be strong now, and not just for her sake.
    ‘Jesus, Lexi… you are fucking with my head big time here.’
    She rested her forehead against his, his fingers tightening around hers. ‘I didn’t want to do that, baby, really. I didn’t. But I… I had to come back. I had to.’
    ‘I tried to move my life on, Lexi. I’m with someone else now and she’s… she’s been good for me, you know?’
    Lexi tried to smile, but it wasn’t in any hurry to come. She’d heard about his new relationship while she’d been over in England – Deena Lopez, a glamour model and part-time porn star who did a lot of work for the Lone Riders’ movie business here in Paradise . It had stung to hear about her then, and it wasn’t any easier to hear him talk about her now. ‘I’m glad. That you moved on, I mean.’
    ‘Yeah, well…’ He trailed off, letting go of her, and the feeling of despair that caused Lexi was indescribable. Pulling his hat out of his back pocket he slid it down over his long dark hair. ‘I’m gonna go find Kip and the guys.’
    She moved away from his bike, folding her arms against herself as she watched him straddle the black leather seat, the revving of the engine filling the otherwise quiet compound before he sped away, out of the open gate.
    Lexi closed her eyes, exhaling slowly.
    ‘Didn’t go to plan, huh?’
    She opened her eyes and spun around to see Angie standing behind her. ‘I wasn’t expecting hearts and flowers.’
    ‘Come inside.’
    ‘What kind of welcome am I gonna get?’
    ‘Honey, as far as the majority of those guys in there go you are gonna be something they’ll welcome back with open arms and hard dicks. I certainly got myself one beautiful daughter, that’s for sure. Baby, you just got a whole lot prettier since the last time I saw you.’
    ‘How does Tay feel about my return?’
    ‘ Tay loves you like his own, Lexi. Even if you could never find it in your heart to reciprocate.’
    Lexi looked at her mum. She was a stunningly beautiful woman herself, someone who looked so much younger than her fifty-six years with her slim figure and red-streaked dark-blonde hair, those piercing blue eyes of hers so striking in her heart-shaped face. Lexi could see a lot of her mother in herself, and that wasn’t always such a bad thing. She’d idolized her father, but she’d always respected her mum even if, at times, it hadn’t looked that way. ‘It wasn’t Tay ’s fault I couldn’t love him back the way he loved me.’
    Angie looked at her daughter again, narrowing her eyes only slightly. ‘No. It wasn’t. But it wasn’t entirely mine, either.’
    Lexi held her gaze for a few seconds longer before she finally broke the stare, looking over towards the clubhouse. The sound of loud music and raucous laughter and the clattering of something that sounded like cutlery being dropped on to a hard tiled floor followed by jeers and whoops spilled out of the open door that led inside. ‘Maybe it’s best I go.’
    Angie shrugged. ‘That’s up to you, darlin’. But you’ve made that all-important first step. You came home. And that took some guts, kiddo.’
    Lexi stared at her mum again. Their relationship had never really been one she’d totally understood, but she’d always looked up to Angie. Always admired her strength and resilience, her ability to take shit from no one. Even her own daughter. And Lexi had thrown enough of it at her in her time. But it still hurt to think of the way her own mother had driven her out of a place she loved, a life she could have gotten back on track. At the same time, though, Lexi had always wondered if it had been nothing but a test. A way for Angie to see just how tough her daughter really could be.
    ‘It took guts, Lexi… Look, honey, nobody’s really gonna stop you from coming back here. Eight years is a long time. Wounds heal.’
    ‘Kip feel that way, does he?’
    ‘Kip’s loyalty to Jesse is always gonna