LAW & BEARD
Series: The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #8
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Winnie thinks she has the perfect life.
Two beautiful, healthy children. A police officer husband. A job that she loves. Oh, and let’s not forget that she’s a nationally ranked marathon runner.
Fast forward six months, and her perfect life has imploded.
Winnie finds herself in a completely new world, and this new world is a brutal bitch.
In this new life of hers, her husband is gone. He realizes, at the worst possible time, that he’s no longer in love with her. He’s in love with her best friend. So he leaves, and doesn’t look back.
Her sixteen-year-old daughter is in trouble with the law, and she’s barely making ends meet thanks to losing the job that was keeping her and her tiny family afloat.
Then, the last thing that could make it all bearable, her running, is ripped out from under her, too. Thanks to a spinal stroke that leaves her unable to walk, let alone run, she’s having to relearn how to do the simplest of tasks—such as putting on her own pants.
She’s at the lowest of lows, and the last thing she wants is a sexy, bearded, motorcycle riding alpha to tell her how to live her life.
But Steel Cross never asks her what she wants.
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The moment Steel Cross sees Winnie’s daughter steal some shoes for her younger brother, he knows he’s in trouble.
He’s a sucker for misunderstood teens. After all, he was once one himself.
He knows he can’t just walk away, and the moment he sees that troubled teen’s mother, he doesn’t just know it, he feels it. Down to the very bottom of his soul.
With his share of hard knocks, he knows that he shouldn’t step in and make his move on a fellow police officer’s ex. There’s a code, after all, yet he just can’t seem to help himself.
He’s done being the good guy. Sometimes he just wants to be bad.
And Winnie makes him realize that being bad is still kind of good. As long as you’re with the right person.
I’d never, not once, had the pleasure of giving a blow job.
Yet, I wanted to give one…to Steel.
Jesus Christ, did I want to give him one.
The man turned me on in ways that I had no clue I could be turned on by, yet here I was, wondering what it would feel like to give the man a blow job.
My curiosity got the better of me as I googled more tips—which they’d said they’d done as a comparison—and then I got lost in the World Wide Web.
My first stop had been Cosmopolitan!
My second had been some random Joe-Blow (literally, that was the name of the website) blog that gave the men’s top ten best blow job tips—according to men.
1. Maintain eye contact.
2. Tie your hair back, it shows your dedication.
3. Allow him to put his hand in your hair and control the movements.
That, I could do! In fact, the idea of Steel putting his hands in my hair and controlling all of the movement was downright arousing.
4. Use your hand as well as your mouth. Twist it side to side lightly as you pump and suck him.
Okay, pump, suck, and twist. Check!
5. Don’t use your teeth. Ever.
I shivered at the thought. That would suck, accidentally biting Steel’s dick. He’d probably never let me near him again and kick me straight the hell out of his bed. Though, I had to get in his bed first…
6. Drop down so he’s standing and you’re kneeling. There’s nothing more arousing than watching a woman get on her knees.
That thought made me shiver. Would Steel like me on my knees?
I sure the hell hoped so. I’d love to get on my knees for him.
Then again, I was doing good with my rehab…he still might have to help me back up.
I winced. Maybe I should just get on the bed between his splayed thighs…yes, that was how I’d do it.
7. Suck his balls.
Suck his balls? How the hell did I put those in my mouth? There wasn’t enough room!
8. Go slow. It’s not a race.
9. Swallow.
Well, that was self-explanatory. But I didn’t know if I could swallow. I’d try, but what if I gagged?
10. We like it when you gag.
Did they? What if I accidentally threw up? That would completely ruin the mood.
“What are you doing?”
I squeaked and jumped as Steel came out of the bathroom.
4.75 ‘Silver Fox Prez’ Stars
Holy mother of SILVER FOXES!
After All the silver fox awesomeness that was Silas, I thought Lani Lynn Vale wouldn’t be able to give us a silver fox up to his level, well, guess I was dead wrong! Steel Cross -most kickass name EVER, btw – was the top Silver Fox to top all the MC Presidents!
Minnie was just as amazing and strong and the kids… WOW!
Now my mind was lost for an altogether different reason.
I knew that Steel was older. Hell, it was hard to miss the silvering gray hair, and the way his beard was more gray than brown at this point.
But I hadn’t really realized how in shape he was—now I knew differently. Steel was just that…steel.
Ah, Steel… Yes, I too, like Minnie, refuse to call him Big Papa in regards to him as a romance hero. Steel Cross is too magnanimous of a name not to be used! Everyone that followed this series, know that Steel is a giver, through and through.
But I was not one who didn’t give it his all.
Not just due to his age and position either in job or the MC, but because he’s a natural papa bear! He takes care of everyone, and when he crosses paths with Winnie and her kids, there is no doubt that no one needs more helps than this broken woman.
She was under my skin, and I didn’t know what to do about it.
The intense attraction.
This feelings that I had for Steel?
They had the potential to be overwhelming.
Both are instantly attracted, but given their pasts, and their present complicated lives, they believe it’s best to ignore the pull. However, Steel, like the protector and giver he is, couldn’t resist lending a hand to the struggling mother, even if meant just guiding her daughter. He couldn’t just not interfere, and little by little he becomes a standing feature, a leaning shoulder to Winnie. With this proximity came of course the strengthening of their magnetism, until they couldn’t deny it any longer and just gave in.
I couldn’t help that my body was attracted to his, drawn to him like a magnet.
She was what my body craved, and who the hell was I to deny her anything?
Though, giving into sexual attraction and opening up one’s heart to their potential is another thing. And Steel and Minnie were fully aware of the immense baggage they each brought into to a new relationship. Yes, this were complicated, they just had to come to terms with it, and realize that their lives were already too intertwined.
Maybe I needed to show him that we didn’t have to make it more complicated than it already was.
Maybe we should uncomplicate things.“Careful.” I looked up to find Fender standing next to me now.
“About what?”
“I see you falling.”
I blinked.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I hedged.
There was no falling. I’d already fallen. I was literally head over heels in love with the man, and there wasn’t a single thing I could do about it.
It was amazing to read about characters with such a mature approach on life. Sure, he’s fifty-three and she’s twenty years younger, but in more ways than one, either by life’s pushes, or being an old soul, Minnie was just as mature as him, and I never once felt this big age, other than when it was directly mentioned. Hell, I’m all for this big age difference when the man is someone like Steel: alpha to the core, silver fox sexy as hell, and a softie at heart! And swoon-worthy! Did I not mention how dreamy he was?!
Winnie was the perfect fucking eraser. My eraser.
She was the only person in my life who brought me peace.She didn’t demand anything of me. She listened to me, and she paid attention. She soothed and calmed me. She comforted and cherished me. No one else in my life, past or present, gave me all of that.
Winnie was it—she was the woman I’d been searching for.
Yep, I fell head over heels for the man. Steel and Silas really are at the top of my All Time FAV Silver Foxes! Minnie hit the jackpot with this one, and after all the horror and pain her ex put her trough, she more than deserved being loved by someone like Steel. Even the hardest fighters need to be cared for and loved. They are that for one another, soulmates.
It was so absolutely kickass to see all the secondary characters, all the women and men from the previous books of the series, all the Dixie Warden Rejects family – specially Sean and his interactions with his dad’s new family, and his new sister, lol – but also bittersweet because with Steel Cross, Big Papa’s HEA, we are also saying goodbye to one of LLV fav series. I LOVE this Rejects and will miss them all, but I’m 100% sure that Lani Lynn Vale will give us a lot of glimpses into this awesome gang in her upcoming books. So not really a goodbye, even with golden finish, but a see you later!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I didn’t think that I would find something like that again. And I didn’t find that same happiness again. Because this, what you and I share, isn’t something that I ever had before with anyone. This is something totally different, new and pure. Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning by your side, I can’t believe that this is my life.”
He smoothed back my hair. “This is our life, baby. Better get used to it.”
ARC kindly provided by the author via InkSlinger PR for an honest review
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.
