Thank you so much for reading Harper and Levy's story. They have been wonderful characters to write and I have so much love for them. I'm so happy that they had their happy ever after. Their baby is a girl and they call her Rosalee after his mother and his grandmother xo
Harper Dinner was a huge success, it felt amazing to have my family around me and my momma sober. It was the first time since I can remember that momma made it to a Thanksgiving dinner. All of Levy’s Friends arrived and all of a sudden, the house was packed. They’re a rowdy bunch but you know what, it made my heart sing loud a chorus of birds on a Spring morning.We’re all out on the wrap around deck feeling full and satisfied. The guys are drinking cold ones, Dylan too. Lacey and I are on white wine and momma is nursing a lime and soda as is Taylor. I am grinning so much my cheeks ache. Levy keeps giving me little looks that make my body burn up. The man is way too good looking for his own good.We have patio heaters running. The sky is black with stars twinkling vying for attention with all the lights hung over the patio area and pinned to the back of the house. He has excelled himself it looks like something off P*******t.We have music playing in the background which Levy has been
LevyHow did I get this lucky in a lifetime? Losing Lilly was one of the hardest things as a man I had to endure and never in a million years did I think I’d fall so deeply in love again. Harper is a ray of sunshine in my world and I’d do anything it takes to keep her safe and happy.I never told Harper but on one of my trips back to the old town when I met up with Lex before he went back on tour, I paid a visit to Jake’s brother in prison. Seeing him was like a gut punch. The same eyes as his brother, the same color hair, it was like seeing Jake again. It made my chest ache for the best friend I lost when I was no more than an older teenager. It hurt you know, right in my chest.It surprised me he was open to my visit to be honest. I expected a hard no but he agreed and there I sat with him in front of me. The man who tried to kill me and hurt Harper. Hell, it could have ended a whole lot worse and Harper and Dylan could have been seriously injured. Yet I needed some kind of closure
HarperWow, it’s been an absolute whirlwind with a capital W. Two months have passed since the incident at Levy’s garage and even though he wanted to rip the guy’s head off knowing where he was staying, his gang brothers told him that the police should handle it.The anger in him has raged and raged that Jake’s brother threatened our lives. Lex handed all the information to the police investigating the case. Needless to say, there was enough on Jake’s brother to put him away for some time, and that is without the threat on our lives. He’s gone down and won’t be out anytime soon.I’m standing in the kitchen in the ranch house in Montana, admiring the manicured lawn out back with a four-bar fence that leads to the paddocks where our horses Mistral and Peony live. They even have heated stables for the winter and cooling conditioners for the heat of summer. Spoilt much and rightly so!It wasn’t a difficult decision to make when Levy asked what I wanted. Without hesitation I told him I wan
LevyI can’t hardly breathe. It feels like a ton of bricks has been dumped unceremoniously on my chest. My ribs are killing me. What the hell shit just happened? I swear to God when I get my hands on that fucker, he is going to be wishing he’d never heard my name.Spitting dust and crap out of my mouth, I glance up and can see that the metal sliding panel on my dug out for working on cars is closed tight. Shit, it looks like the lock has snapped in place and now I’m stuck.Banging on the panel I yell out. “Hello! Hello! Is anyone there? Can anyone hear me?” It’s a deep dug out; to put it into perspective for you, I can stand in it to work on cars without having to raise them too much and I am six foot plus.My knees feel like they are blown to pieces as I stand. As soon as I saw that asshole throwing something into the garage that looked pretty much like a pipe bomb. I did the first thing I could think of and threw myself into the dug out in the garage and pulled the sliding metal doo
HarperI am thrown forward and on to the ground as the door flies in hitting me on the back. I scream out in pain from the impact and begin to cough. What the hell is going on? Is Levy, okay? Oh, my God. “LEVY!” I scream out.“Harper, Harper are you okay? What was that?” Dylan’s voice is edged with concern as he reaches for my hand.“The door, can you move the door? I can’t move it’s too heavy,” I tell him. He stands up and surveys the mess that is surrounding us.“Where is dad? Where’s my father?” He is almost bordering on hysterical as am I fearing the worse for Levy.“I don’t know he pushed me to the door and then the explosion went off. Some biker threw something into the garage, like a gas or a pipe bomb. Honestly, I have no idea.”He furrows his brows and scrubs his hand over his face. “Shit. It must have been something else if it was a gas bomb the house would have gone up.”“Can you help me please, Dylan then we can try and find Levy.”He grunts as he moves the heavy door that
HarperI swing back and look at my mother with anger in my eyes, I can feel it pouring out of every cell of my body right now.“What do you think you’re doing? You can’t speak to Levy like that.” Her lips form a thin line. “And since when do you even tell us anything? Sorry, Momma but you haven’t parented in forever.” I place my hands on my hips. Right now I could punch something. Not my momma obviously, but definitely something.“I did what needed to be done, Harper. He killed a young boy.”“Oh, come off it. That was an accident on that road, we all know how dangerous it is. He was young and foolish. It could have happened to anyone. You have no right to speak to him that way. Don’t start trying be the parent now.” God I am spitting feathers right now.“Stop it, stop shouting at momma,” Taylor stands up. Dylan is too shocked to speak I can see how pale his face has gone. Of course it would be. He is also trying to process what his father told us all. And what else gets to me is that
LevyI take in my son’s face and Harper’s. Both look expectant yet Harper looks as pale as a ghost. I worry for her. I worry what she will think when I tell her what happened all those years ago. Fuck, my heart is banging in my chest so badly, I wonder if they can hear it. And her mother is sitting on the edge of the sofa with Taylor next to her.This wasn’t exactly how I was picturing tell my son and Harper. I thought we would have more privacy and I could keep this away from her younger sister and her mother.I lean my elbows on my thighs and lean forward slightly. I stretch out a hand and take Harper’s in mine. She squeezes my hand. That’s a good sign and I let out a long, slow breath.“Dad, whatever it is it won’t change how we feel about you. You’re my father and I love you.” His words strike a chord in my chest; I swear my heart is going to crack. From the first moment I set eyes on my son at birth, he cracked my chest wide open. Not a day has passed where I haven’t wondered at
HarperI put the phone down and wonder how on earth I am going to explain this one to my mother and my sister. So far, they are in the bubble of momma being home like everything is peachy and the roses are blooming in the garden.My heart feels like it is having palpitations. More men around the house? This does not sound good and I am frightened to the core for Levy. Whatever he has gotten himself into, I am not sure I can deal with that. I have to think of my younger sister and my mother. Who right now, my mother that is – does not need any upset or stress in her life.And why all of a sudden am I some kind of target? What the holy shit is all that about? There isn’t anything I can do until Levy comes home and tells us what exactly is going on.I go downstairs and call my momma and Taylor to come sit with me in the lounge. After of course I have double checked that the front door and the back door are locked and the windows too. It gives me a sense of eeriness doing this and Levy ha
Levy“Fuck,” I say out loud as Lex looks me in the eye. “So, you’re telling me that Jake had a kid brother?”Lex nods. We’re sitting in his den. It’s actually the basement of his house and runs about four hundred square meters. He has also sots of monitors and screens hooked up. The man runs a private surveillance company on top of being a marine. How he fits it all in is beyond me but he does. Of course, he has a whole team. No, a whole village of people that support him and his brothers.“And you’re telling me that the kid was around five or six when Jake died?”“That’s correct. Man, are you going to fucking sit down? You’re making me anxious with all that pacing. Besides, I just had this floor laid and you’re gonna wear it out.” His voice is good natured but I can tell that my stressing is stressing him out.I run my fingers through my hair, at this rate I am going to bald. “And stop doing that with your hair. You need to chill out, none of this was your fault, Levy.”The hell it w