The Voices are Back

Table of Contents The Voices are Back Dedication Acknowledgments Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale Blurb Prologue Prologue II Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Epilogue Aodhan & Morrigan The Voices are Back Text copyright © 2022 Lani Lynn Vale ™ All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. To the people that deserve a second chance, but didn’t get it. Acknowledgments Golden Czermak - Photographer My Brother’s Editor & Ink It Out Editing - My editors Alyssa Garcia - Cover Artist & PA My mom - Thank you for reading this book eight million three hundred and ninety-seven times. My betas - I don’t know what I would do without y’all. Thank you, my lovely betas, for loving my books as much as I do. Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale The Freebirds Boomtown Highway Don’t Care Another One Bites the Dust Last Day of My Life Texas Tornado I Don’t Dance The Heroes of The Dixie Wardens MC Lights To My Siren Halligan To My Axe Kevlar To My Vest Keys To My Cuffs Life To My Flight Charge To My Line Counter To My Intelligence Right To My Wrong Code 11- KPD SWAT Center Mass Double Tap Bang Switch Execution Style Charlie Foxtrot Kill Shot Coup De Grace The Uncertain Saints Whiskey Neat Jack & Coke Vodka On The Rocks Bad Apple Dirty Mother Rusty Nail The Kilgore Fire Series Shock Advised Flash Point Oxygen Deprived Controlled Burn Put Out I Like Big Dragons Series I Like Big Dragons and I Cannot Lie Dragons Need Love, Too Oh, My Dragon The Dixie Warden Rejects Beard Mode Fear the Beard Son of a Beard I’m Only Here for the Beard The Beard Made Me Do It Beard Up For the Love of Beard Law & Beard There’s No Crying in Baseball Pitch Please Quit Your Pitchin’ Listen, Pitch The Hail Raisers Hail No Go to Hail Burn in Hail What the Hail The Hail You Say Hail Mary The Simple Man Series Kinda Don’t Care Maybe Don’t Wanna Get You Some Ain’t Doin’ It Too Bad So Sad Bear Bottom Guardians MC Mess Me Up Talkin’ Trash How About No My Bad One Chance, Fancy It Happens Keep It Classy Snitches Get Stitches F-Bomb The Southern Gentleman Series Hissy Fit Lord Have Mercy KPD Motorcycle Patrol Hide Your Crazy It Wasn’t Me I’d Rather Not Make Me Sinners are Winners If You Say So SWAT 2.0 Just Kidding Fries Before Guys Maybe Swearing Will Help Ask Me If I Care May Contain Wine Joke’s on You Join the Club Any Day Now Say it Ain’t So Officially Over It Nobody Knows Depends Who’s Asking Valentine Boys Herd That Crazy Heifer Chute Yeah Get Bucked Souls Chapel Revenants Repeat Offender Conjugal Visits Jailbait Doin’ A Dime Kitty, Kitty Gen Pop Inmate of the Month Madd CrossFit Series No Rep Jerk It Chalk Dirty to Me Battle Crows MC Always Someone’s Monster Make Me Your Villain Rattle Some Cages Blurb Her: Just a word, yet one person came to mind. Morrigan St. Pete. The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one. Through marriage, divorce, and a prison sentence, I had low expectations when it came to her ever coming around. But then she showed up out of the blue, and that feeling of suffocation slacked off for the first time since I let her go. The first time I tried to come back to find Aodhan, I found him married with a kid on the way. The second time I saw him, he was heading to jail. The third time I saw him, he was divorced, had a kid, and was again with his ex-wife. PROLOGUE If you have a beard, and no valentine, remember. You still have a beard. -Text from Morrigan to Aodhan AODHAN The first time I met her, I didn’t remember. My parents remembered, though. That day, the worst thing that could ever happen happened to two different families. My mom and dad, Stella and Abram, were visiting friends and family the week before my mom was due to give birth. Then, while on the way, a car hit them and she went into labor. Something happened, and during the birth, my twin brother perished before he’d even taken his first breath. Fast-forward to me in the NICU. I hadn’t calmed down one single second since I was born. I’d gone from a happy little world with my brother right beside me, to a totally different one with no one at my side. My parents were both in rough shape, banged up from the accident. Meanwhile, I was all alone with no one close to hold me or comfort me but some overworked nurses. In the cradle right beside mine, there was another baby that had lost her twin sister that very day. Though her mother hadn’t been in an accident like mine. Her mother had tried to kill herself and had only accomplished killing her twin sister. Two overworked nurses had seen the two babies crying their little hearts out and noticed