Carrying Blaze's Mark

– C (deceased)
Rosaline – C
Dragon – Medic – Connors – O
Gadget – Tech – Connors – O
Logan – C
Kagan – C
Keegan – C
Hades – Enforcer – Emerson – O
Alec – C
Burner – Treasurer – Ally – O
Badger – Member – Jordan – O
K-9 – Member
Wolf – Member
Sabor – Member
Mace – Member
Mac – Prospect (Deceased)

DRMC Originals


O – Ol’ Lady, C – Child
Stoney – Prez – Rachel – O
Horse (Scotty) – Stoney’s C
Luca – C
Corinne – C
Sebastian – C
Tracker – VP –– Victoria – O
Jamie – C
Blaze – Sergeant at Arms –– Raven – O
Matthew – C
Mark – C
Coyote – Road Captain – Tinsley – O
Cody – C
Bear – Former Road Captain –– Momma B – O
Rage (Travis) – C
Jane – C (deceased)
Nerd – Tech – Cara – O
Shadow – Enforcer – Luna – O
Daniel – C
Ranger – Medic – Harlow – O
Venom – Secretary
Whip – Chaplain
Viper – Treasurer
Neo – Member
Cane – Member
Cyprus – Prospect
Fist – Prospect
Aries – Prospect


DRMC Southeast


O – Ol’ Lady, C – Child
Hammer – Prez
Malice – VP
Axe – Sergeant at Arms
Savage – Road Captain
Gunner – Enforcer
Cy – Tech
Bruiser – Treasurer
Dagger – Medic
Rogue – Secretary
Brass – Chaplain
Glock – Member
Rugger – Member
Blade – Member
Colt – Member
Carbine – Member


DRMC Tennessee


O – Ol’ Lady, C – Child
Blow – Prez
Nines –VP
Keys – Tech
Lucky – Sergeant at Arms
Shiner – Enforcer
Griz – Road Captain
Surge – Treasurer
Scorn – Chaplain
Sniper – Member – Rain – O
Nerd – C
Storm – C
Flash – Member
Switchblade – Member
Torch – Member


Trigger Warning
This content is intended for mature audiences only. It contains material that may be viewed as offensive to some readers, including graphic language, dangerous and sexual situations, murder, rape, and extreme violence.
Proceed with caution this book does entail several scenes that may very well be a trigger to some.
Also, tissues are a must with other scenes.
Not for the faint at heart.
If you don’t like violence and cannot handle certain subjects, then this is not a book you’ll want to read.


Timeline Note
Carrying Blaze’s Mark happen during the timeframe in Choosing Nerd before the epilogue which is where Ranger’s Fury starts.


Playlist
Mindfield – Crucifix
Love Conquers All – Struggle Jennings
Just Hold On – Savannah Dexter Ft. Adam Calhoun
Weakness – Brabo Gator
Under Your Scars – Godsmack
Warrior – Brianna Harness
Watch Me Burn – Silent Theory


Love of a Bird
Little bird in the wind
Fly free as you can
Nothing can hold you back
Not even those who try
Little bird carries within
The heart of an eagle
Yet fights like a hawk
No one can take what is the bird’s
She’ll release her claws
Fight to the death
Keep anyone from harming
Those she sees as hers
Blood or not nothing will come between
Not even death itself
Love of a fierce bird of mine
Fly high as you might
Eyes on those who keep you here
Nothing can hold you
As you spread your wings in the wind up high
Little bird will never stray from those who she keeps dear
Heart of an eagle
Fight like a hawk
Soul of the woman
Strength of a mother
~ E.C. Land


Prologue
Blaze
Two Weeks Ago
There are times when you get a gut feeling something’s not right, but you don’t know the cause. It is this feeling that woke me in the dead of night with Raven in my arms. Pressing my hand to her rounded stomach, I allow myself to relax. Feeling our kid kick against my hand makes everything ease within me completely.
When my ex-wife ran into the guardrail killing my daughter, I never thought I’d have this feeling again. A sense of family. My little girl was my world. The reason for my smiles. I regret losing her but I know in my heart she’s with me.
For my birthday, Raven had bought me a chain to wear with my daughter’s name inscribed between a set of wings. “She’ll fly above you and fly within you, babe, this way you can feel the wings touching you.” Her words meant everything to me when she gave it to me, and I haven’t taken it off since.
Making Raven my ol’ lady was the best damn decision I could ever make in my life. She was meant to be mine as I was for her. It might have taken her a bit, but she accepted the truth of it and finally let herself be who she was fated to be. To use her gifts she’d been blessed with. Not the ones that put her in danger.
As her mother told me, I was the anchor giving Raven the strength she needed. At first, I didn’t understand it. Some days I still don’t; but I stick by her through it all. The first time it happened to her was when she was on the back of my bike, the wind spoke to her warning her something wasn’t right. I believed her and knew to trust what she says. Especially when everything went down with Dixie and her claiming to carry my kid. A kid who ended up being my father’s. Bitch tried pinning it on me and Raven made it known she was lying from the get-go.
After what went down with the birth of Matthew, how Dixie tried to destroy what my woman and I have, I never want to experience anything like it again. Matthew may not be my son by birth but rather my little brother; however, he’s my son all the same. Raven is his mother not the woman who pushed him out. No, that bitch can stay rotting the rest of her days in the shithole Raven sent her to, under the watch full eye of Raven’s cousin, Trevor.
Guy’s freaky as hell with his tattooed covered face looking like a skeleton but he runs a place where no one will see the light of day again. Not where he puts them. From what Raven told me, this is the place she and Victoria put people they deemed needed to