The Perfect Stroke
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Authors: Jordan Marie
by Jordan Marie
Copyright © 2016 by Jordan Marie
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, groups, businesses, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Cover Design by Robin Harper of
Wicked By Design
Cover Model by Thomas DeLauer
Photographer by Michael Stokes
Interior Design & Editing by Daryl Banner
DISCLAIMER:
This book is intended for mature audiences. It contains adult language and explicit sexuality. Not intended for readers under the age of 18. Reader discretion advised.
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Trusting Bull
Devil’s Blaze MC
Captured (Book 1)
Burned (Book 2)
Released (Book 3)
Other work by Baylee Rose, a pen name of Jordan Marie
Filthy Florida Alphas
Unlawful Seizure (Book 1)
Unjustified Demands (Book 2)
Unwritten Rules (Book 3)
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To all the people who took a chance on me, read me, and encouraged me. I owe you the world.
XOXO
J
Baylee Rose’s “Unjustified Demands”
The trouble with being from a small town is that everyone knows
everyone
. I’ve lived here my whole life. It’s not been good, but it’s not been bad. We didn’t have much—just me and Banger. Banger was my dad.
Well, sort of
. He’s actually the old man that my womb donor shacked up with. She ran off with a traveling vacuum salesman when I was seven and it’s just been me and Banger ever since. Yes, I know my life has been pretty cliché. I deal. Banger was a former POW. He’s a big, growly, bearded mountain of a man who never made me feel unwanted. He didn’t know much about having kids—never mind if that kid was a girl—but we muddled through.
By the time I was ten, I could change oil, rotate tires, and rebuild carburetors. By the time I was fifteen, I could rebuild an engine. I mastered transmissions at the age of sixteen. Banger said I was a natural, but the truth was that I just wanted to make him proud. He owned the only garage in town, and I wanted to make sure I helped him as much as I could.
He found out he had cancer on my seventeenth birthday. We got drunk together. Banger was many things, but he wasn’t worried about legalities or society rules. It’s probably one of the things I loved most about him. He passed away the summer I turned nineteen and I just kind of found myself taking over the garage. Now at the age of twenty-six, the people in Crossville, Kentucky know me pretty well. They’ve learned to trust my work, and Claude’s garage stays busy. That’s my name, by the way. Claudia Cooper. Banger always called me Claude and it just stuck. If it ever bothered me, I’ve learned to accept it now. I’ve found that with life, you just have to deal with what it gives you. Things could always be worse.
But back to why I’m in Lexington tonight: Lexington is probably the closest city to Crossville. It takes me almost three hours to drive here. I do it every so often, and I do it for one reason: If I don’t escape Crossville from time to time, I’d probably end up one of those nut cases on the six o’clock news who goes postal. Really, it’s a public service I’m doing. People should be grateful.