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Hannah Hello everybody and welcome to SM

club I'm Hannah and I'm

Chelsea and this is the podcast where we

occasionally daydrink sometimes not and

we talk about the Trashy romance novels

that we

read less trashy yeah sometimes

sometimes they're classy romance how we

made it to classy not today

I mean you're like literally not at all

let's set expectations up front I I

wouldn't call it that yeah what what

book are we reviewing today today it's

called Sacrifice by Addison Jane it is a

motorcycle club romance o our first MC

so our last episode was our first Omega

verse and this is our first MC look at

us MC making big moves into new

universes I love that for us yeah it's a

sign of

growth what are we growing

into it doesn't matter it doesn't we're

just continuing to grow we're not being

stagnant we're pushing ourselves we

aren't we read these books anyway we

just haven't outlined them

yet so this wait did you say Addison

Jane or James Jane because I'm pretty

sure there's an Addison James that I've

read as well just feels like a yeah this

is Addison Jane got it yeah two first

seemes um so I have been wanting to do a

motorcycle club for a while but the

issue is that they have so many Side

characters and so much other stuff going

on that it's really really difficult to

get a good outline well cuz I feel like

we've talked about this before every MC

book I've read it is like setting up the

universe for the rest of the books

within their Motorcycle Club and it's so

much yeah and I'm like I am having to

learn like 50 people's names in this

first book yeah this isn't fun so this

one I thought would be good to do

because it's less like that it's less

about the club um the club obviously is

important but it's it's more about the

relationship than it is about the club

itself which is helpful um so in the

prologue we open with Hawk which is our

main guy oh that's funny two episodes in

a row with a hawk with a hawk does yours

have an e on the end of it no oh okay

yeah so mine was a little fancier with

the E I just said it wasn't

classy did I stutter

Chelsea I thought I said the

expectations of this book

appropriately Hawk with no e talk with

no e okay so I won't make that mistake

again

so when I started this

book I'm just going to get into it so

you can experience it the way I

experienced it Hawk is being dragged to

the front of a church by his dad how old

is

he

14 okay uh

is I think it's not super clear he's a

kid though yeah and um in front of an

entire congregation the church is full

all the pews are full his dad is

dragging him to the front and my notes

say some kind of cult situation he's the

14th child of

37 and his dad has seven

wives oh so we learn this from Hawk's

internal dialogue as his dad is like

hauling him in front of their whole

Community to the front of the

church is there anyone in their

Community outside of his siblings I've

been to churches that cannot seat that

many people so it appears to be a large

community got it yeah yeah but God damn

and the whole congregation is just

watching him be dragged to the pulpit

and there's this huge box that's like

covered by a

sheet and the prophet tells him that he

has to be punished for questioning their

teachings this might be a is the prophet

his dad or is the prophet a separate

person the prophet's a separate person

so his dad is like delivering him to the

prophet for punishment for punishment

and

um Hawk realizes his younger brother who

is younger by a negligible amount they

might as well be twins kind of deal

betrayed him because Hawk had been

questioning the church's teachings and

was talking to his brother about it and

his brother turned around and told the

elders so they reveal that the box is

full of snakes full of like very

poisonous

snakes and the test is that they

intentionally make the snakes bite you

and if you die then you were a sinner

and irredeemable but if you live

then God Has Smiled upon you or whatever

why does this feel like it's bringing up

Church [ __ ] for me in a way that I like

wasn't like when you told me you're like

I'm going to like outline this like MC

cult book I was like okay sounds good

and now I'm like oh wow we're really

getting into um it's dark yeah yeah it's

dark because Hawk Hawk has seen this

happen before this is not a thing that

happens all the time but it happens

regularly enough that he has seen it

before and he has never seen someone

survive it so like like the whole church

just watches people die when they step

out of line and the prophet is unhappy

and then they're like well I guess since

they died they had it coming yep

basically God just didn't like that one

so Hawk is like okay how I like no

emotionally going into it is the whole

book this dark no okay mm I was like

it's fine either way I just need to know

what we're stepping into so it like

you'll see but no it it does get lighter

um but and then darker as motorcycle

romances often do yes but um he is kind

of resigning himself to the fact that

he's going to die all these men are

bigger than him holding him down he

knows that like this is it and as he

gets bitten the doors of the church like

fly

open and um a bunch of men in leather

vests show up and one of them picks him

up and Carries him out of the church as

he is like dying he's like feels like

he's on fire because he's already been

bitten so that's the end of the

prologue what a start I know wow I was

like I didn't know that this motorcycle

romance was going to bring about

religious trauma triggers for me but

here we are or our listeners and we

apologize sorry I'm so sorry we didn't

know it was going to bring stuff up for

us either so it's we're just going to be

on a journey all together all together

yeah so now we're in chapter one and

Hawk is getting home from Sunday lunch

with his Club um his cousin always Cooks

um and uh his uncle Bishop is the one

who rescued him and took him in after

the whole incident with the church and

we find out later I'm just going to go

ahead and give it cuz it was really

confusing Bishop is his biological Uncle

so Bishop also grew up in the cult and

ran away when he was a teenager but

always stayed kind of

nearby for his nieces and nephews and

someone warned him what was happening

and so he showed up to rescue Hawk thank

you for connecting those dots before I

tried to connect them myself and failed

you're welcome okay so actual Uncle yes

and he essentially raised him after that

so um Hawk is the vice president of the

club um and they are currently opening a

sports bar they're very much into like

expanding their business interests and

making sure that the club is stable and

doing well financially it also seems

like real businesses yes they are legit

they are like legit okay yeah they're

legit um so his cousin tells him um like

there's some guys out back that are

making me kind of uncomfortable so this

is a standing Sunday lunch that the

whole club comes to okay and his cousin

cie is a a real sweetheart and she's

like something something's not right

with these guys um and it turns out that

they are the new security for the bar

like they're the bouncers that his uncle

has hired for the

bar and his uncle is like listen he's

going to be real easy to manage cuz he

is [ __ ] stupid so like he's huge and

he's intimidating but he's not all that

smart so like wait who's not all that

the the new muscle for the bar the

bouncer all all of the new the bouncers

how many are there three I think but one

is really the only one that matters okay

um and so um

he's like Hawk's like you know what this

is not my problem like I'm just leaving

it alone right as long as he stays away

from my cousin and doesn't like hurt

anybody it's not my problem okay and he

starts kind of walking away and then a

prospect which for anybody who's not

read a motorcycle romance prospects are

like the pledges of the club for like a

year or so to prove themselves paying

their dues to try and get full

membership exactly so a prospect comes

out and he's like hey uh Hawk you might

want to come out front my friend like

there's trouble and Hawk's like what now

like I literally I'm just trying to mind

my own business like what now so now we

switch to Missy's point of

view so Missy is real pissed like

righteously pissed off off and she is

fully aware that marching up to a bunch

of bikers is a very bad idea but she's

like I am doing it anyway because that's

how angry I

am and she sees the guy that she's

looking for and she tells him to stay

away from her family and if he ever

comes near them again she will [ __ ] him

up and then she pulls out a bat and

beats the [ __ ] out of him like to the

ground

um like takes out his knee like off the

rip and all the bikers pull guns on

her and um she knows she's like okay so

um message has been delivered it's time

for me to go she's like I've done what I

needed to do okay sorry I just want to

make sure I'm fully

so how old is Hawk now how many years

has this been it's like 20 I think so

he's like in his early 30s oh okay he's

not 20 where it's been 6 years it has

been 20 where he is now in his like

early 30s his cousin is cie yes cie said

that the new security people made her

feel a little weird and he was like he

seems like an idiot but we'll we'll be

fine but then as that's happening

someone also comes and gets Hawk and is

like you need to get your ass out front

and we switch to Missy who is out front

and why Hawk needs to get there because

she's beating

one of the motorcycle club members with

a bat telling him to stay the [ __ ] away

from her family correct and now everyone

has pulled guns on her and she's like

okay so like now's a good time for me to

leave so I've done what I needed to do

want to overstand my welcome yes you get

it you're tracking okay um because

that's that was the energy of this book

from the start where I was like what

because so much just happens and then

the context is filled in later and so

it's a lot to keep track of

it is um but still less somehow than

most other other motorcycle romances

that I've read so um she's like okay um

so now you know do not come near my

daughter again I've enjoyed this time

we've had together have a great day or

don't and like starts to

leave um because apparently the guy that

she beat up beat the [ __ ] out of her

ex while her her four-year-old daughter

was there like in front of her dad he

like this motorcycle club member showed

up and beat the [ __ ] out of him and

she's like frankly I don't care why my

ex is a piece of [ __ ] yeah he had it

coming don't do it in front of my kid

right she's like I'm absolutely sure

that he deserved it yeah but my daughter

didn't need to see that that's not

acceptable totally fair yeah totally

fair um so uh she goes to leave

when another guy shows up and says to

take the guy who's now rolling around on

the ground in pain like drag him away um

and um the guy is super hot it's Hawk

he's super hot and she's

like try not to focus on that cuz she's

like I literally just beat up a member

of his Club I need to go like how old is

she um I think she's like 20 2

24 oh yeah so substant substantially

younger than ha he is so it's not super

clear how many years have passed since

this whole incident happened but he is

at least in his late 20s so they have I

would say between five and 10 years

difference I was more thinking of her

being a mother of a four-year-old at 22

and more of like that like oh okay MH so

that's the other thing about this B is

there are little moments where it's like

oh that's going to come back and it

never does you know that that saying um

I can't remember the quote who said it

but it's like if a gun shows up in act

one it will go off by act three that is

not true for this

book like the gun never goes

off well now I know you're like as I'm

emotionally preparing for all of it and

you're like it's just not going to

happen Chelsea right it's fine and so

yeah anyway so um he starts following

her down the

driveway um and saying that he will

reinforce the message that absolutely

that should not have happened that you

know they don't do stuff like that in

front of women and children like he will

make sure that that's

understood

um and she says well good because if it

happens again I won't be bringing a bat

next time like I'm not [ __ ] around

right now and um he calls her baby and

promises that um so what percent of the

way through the book are we where the

first baby showed up like halfway

through the second chapter really like

real quick 2% of the way through the

book that might be it might be a record

a record yeah um and he's like listen

baby if he pulls [ __ ] like that again

he'll be lunch for the fishes and she

says um if you call me baby again the

fish will also have dinner and gets in

her car and drives

away that is Miss's energy she's not

here for it she's not interested I'm a

fan of Missy at this point Miss's

like I don't care that you're good-look

I have larger things in my life that I'm

concerned about and worried about like

this is not worth it I have [ __ ] to do

and you aren't on the list like get out

of my

face bold move calling someone baby the

yes although I guess to his credit did

she ever say her name was Missy no he

has no idea who she is he had to call

her something sure could could have been

a lot worse than baby that's also

true that is also true even though she

just beat the [ __ ] out of someone it

could have been a lot worse than baby

it's also true um so we flash back to

Hawk he is collecting a debt for the

third time so their motorcycle club is

not fully legit but they are mostly

legit and one of the ways they make

money is by buying debt from other

people and then collecting it but not

from like

major obviously Banks or anything but

from

local businesses they will buy debt I've

never heard of a debt collector in that

capacity before mhm mhm fascinating

business model do you still get a

discount

are you buying it for pennies on the

dollar I don't really know I have a lot

of questions I don't they did not go

into the business model but what does

happen they don't they don't seem to I'm

already getting the energy they are not

concerned about most of my questions

they're not they're not they're they

have other things they're worried about

like trying to get this guy to [ __ ]

pay for the third time and the guy um is

like you can have my girlfriend though

like I don't have any cash but you can

have my girlfriend and Hawk is so done

he just shoots the guy a lot and is like

I've had enough like

nope so that's the end of that hog say I

don't collect women and children

[ __ ] as he just like leaves with

holes yeah basically I have a moral

compass there's a

line and I think we just learned what

hawks is and H and I have different

lines yeah yeah and you

know I'm not going to comment on Hawk's

line it is his right um everyone is

allowed to have their own true north

correct yeah yes so the guy that got the

[ __ ] beat out of him by Missy is with

him and he's limping um and um his name

is Drew and he says that Missy has grown

up a lot and Hawk is like

I got a name like

yes and Drew goes on and on explaining

that like her ex is a piece of [ __ ] and

she would work like two or three jobs at

a time even while she was pregnant while

he just cheated on her all over

town and um he's like a big talker cuz

he just keeps going and says that she

currently uh is a stripper at a club

called The Rush

um so very convenient for Hawk who

wanted to just had a lot of questions

and Intrigue about his girl Missy very

much and Drew's just like unprompted

here you go buddy here's everything you

ever needed to know including her social

security number sh allow me to share and

my notes literally say Hawk now has

plans for the

evening

so so we're back to miss she is flipping

out because her baby daddy she's pretty

sure stole her daughter's epip pen and

sold it um and she needs to replace it

but she is short on the money for it um

her

daughter um Katie is allergic to eggs

and it's really really bad and so she

has to have an epip pen like at all

times and um her daughter is currently

sleeping in the dressing room of the

club um as she talks to her best friend

about the

situation and bestie whose name is Jim

wants Missy to ask the other girls for

money she's like just ask everybody for

like a cool 20 or whatever and you can

cover it like I know it's expensive but

we want to be able to help you and Missy

just won't do it and she knows she's

going to have to ask her boss for money

um which generally means she's going to

have to give him a blowy or something to

like get the money that she needs but

her kid is the priority so she's like

I'll just do I I'll do what I have to do

at this point like if it's a [ __ ] for

an epip pin it's a [ __ ] for an epip

pin and that's what I have to do 100%

which is tragic it's horrible but also

like the reality for a lot of people you

know so she is especially with like the

current UHC situation

dude that is

wild [ __ ] insane and that the fact

that it's like not getting more coverage

I know that's the part that's blowing my

mind I'm like the number of

disfranchised people who cannot afford

life and like a post that I saw was even

commenting that they were like yeah I

run like essentially a halfway house

like a recovery house that is Insurance

run and they're like I'm not getting

paid rent MH like and I'm paying

mortgages on they owned like 20 plus

houses yep and like that hadn't even

dawned on me mm it is and there like no

one is talking about it I mean some

people are but like not nearly as much

as you would anticipate people talking

about it yeah I

mean I could get on an entire Soap Box

about the state of our healthc care in

the United States and I won't but yes

you're correct it's all a hot shitty

mess and I sincer really doubt that the

rush is giving missy good benefits so

she's doing what she can you

know I

mean they're not doing a 3% 401K match

no I don't I I don't think so I don't

think they are probably at the fuzzy

hole

though at the strip club called

beef um so

when she gets to the office there are

men in there and they're from the MC and

she's like oh [ __ ] maybe they changed

their mind

about like oops um but Hawk is

introduced and

um she's like basically ignoring all the

men in the room and focused on her boss

and asking him for a a a what is it an

advance or whatever

um and Hawk as she's asking interrupts

and he's like I'll hire you and one

other for a party that we're paying or

that we're throwing next week I'll pay

you up front um and she's

like

deal it does not seem like a hard sell

for her in this season and that feels

like a very easy yeah in for him and he

offers her like double what she needed

and so she's like good deal thank you um

and he's also thinking he got a good

deal everybody's winning win-wins all

around um and so

um he uh is very much like uh

domineering and like giving her orders

about like this is what you're going to

do and this is what it's going to be and

this blah blah blah um and she usually

doesn't like it when men speak to her

that way but she's into it bossy she's

into it and it freaks her out a little

bit she's

like um and um so he pays her up front

and like that is huge for her like that

makes a huge difference for her so she's

already feeling a lot less stress about

everything um so the next day Hawk is at

the park and his twin sister who is

still in the cult meets up with him

there every other week so they have like

a standing date because they can't

really talk um but they meet up every

single every other week um to check in

with each other you really feel like

someone would have caught on if it's

supposed to be well it seems like they

know it it seems like the cult is aware

of what she's doing okay but it's not

it's more like we're just not going to

acknowledge it kind of

thing um so she is pregnant again

with twins this time so she already has

I think three or four kids I mean it's a

lot it's a lot happening and the cult

believes that their savior will be born

with a cross birth mark so they are

popping out as many kids as possible

trying to find the

one and Hawk is really concerned because

the cult believes that twins are born

cursed like they bad luck because one

gets all the sin and one gets all the

goodness so Grace got all the goodness

and he got all the sin

mhm and um Grace is his sister and she's

like listen I know that you will protect

them if they need it like I know who to

call if something goes wrong they're

going to be okay it's like she lives in

the cult but she knows but understands

her reality yes okay yeah at this point

she's unwilling to leave her

children um and she does care very much

about her husband even though it's a it

was an arranged marriage situation she

cares about him and she loves her kids

and so she's like I'm I'm going to be

where I am and I've accepted that so as

they're talking they hear a man like

screaming at somebody just like

obscenities and just like super

aggressive sorry we're we're still at

the strip club right no we're at the

park where he was meeting his sister yep

sorry I I was like I missed something

and I felt like it was on me and it

was you're right a lot we switched we

switched entirely and I'm still stuck at

the strip club and him and Missy are

talking even though we've had a full ass

conversation about Grace at this point I

am

thriving there are a lot of scene

changes in fairness to you there are a

lot of scene changes I felt that way um

when we just reviewed I think not like

there are so many characters and you're

like trying to like keep everyone's

perspective that you're just like oh my

gosh where did we just end up yes and it

also always throws me when you can like

change perspect like change to three

different people's points of view and

still be in the same scene yes I think

that can be a little trippy especially

when like trying to outline or review a

book yeah I just read this one is still

just on me well a little

but also I just read a book where they

did this thing where like you had one

perspective the whole way through the

scene and then you started the next

chapter and it was a different

perspective but the same scene and so

you were like back in time again and it

was like

ah like I don't I don't know what's

happening yeah and I feel like some

people do that where they're just like

oh clarifying whatever little like

whatever moment and then moving on yes

yeah it's always a little trippy though

it is trippy all right so now there's

shouting and screaming shouting and

screaming at the park okay and when they

look over it's a guy getting in Missy's

face like Missy is at the playground

with her daughter and this guy is like

standing over her screaming saying that

he's going to take Katie away from

her um and like if you ever try this

[ __ ] again or whatever we have no idea

what any of that means but um hot Go's

[ __ ] bananas and pulls the guy away

from her and then he realizes that it is

her baby

daddy so um Missy gets between them and

is like Hawk you got to stop my daughter

is here you have to stop right um there

are children present we are at a public

playground right now simmer yes so um

the uh Baby Daddy finally leaves after

Hawk makes several threats and then

Katie is introduced to Hawk and she's

super cute like she has in little

pigtails and like she's just very very

cute and Grace comes over to play with

Katie while Hawk and Missy talk and

Missy is in tears saying that this

happens all the time where like Katie's

dad just becomes very verbally abusive

towards her um and he Hawk like pulls

her into a hug and they have a little

moment um but she pulls back and very

obviously like turns away from him to

check on Katie like it's very obvious

that Hawk is cute she enjoys his company

but ultimately like her daughter is way

far and above more important obviously

than this dude it should be right than

this dude and he he actually like kind

of likes that that she is not so like

vapid and like fixated on like a man you

know mhm

um so she like wow she cared about her

kid more than my dick priorities what a

beautiful angel amazing you're like

feels like the bar might be a little low

you know what's amazing though this

might be the first time we've had a bar

set so low for a

woman you

know usually it's the

man

a we are we are making all kinds of

growth and progress today oh my God I

love this for us the bar was so low for

a woman congrats to

us

equality um

so we flash forward to the

weekend and Missy is working the party

for the club they're celebrating the

opening of the new

bar so there's a lot of mix of people

there there's a lot of the members but

also employees and other people that

they've invited to this party and she is

only responsible for serving drinks and

she is loving she's not dancing she's

not dancing she's just serving drinks

with her best friend gem well honestly

the funny thing is I was literally just

sitting here thinking like I feel like

Hawk is surprisingly chill having the

girles into dance for the other dudes in

the club so they are dancing but they're

not stripping so like they're basically

serving drinks and hyping the crowd and

that's all they're doing oh right what a

breeze Easy Money the easiest of money

yeah yeah um you're like cool you're a

shot girl

basically um so um everybody has been

really great super respectful like she

was a little bit nervous about being

around an MC obviously also when that

the last time she was there she she beat

the [ __ ] out of somebody beat someone

yeah yeah like I get where maybe you're

like oop okay driveing back wonder how

this is going to

go I'll leave my bat in the

car um so

um uh like I said jeem is with her

everybody's super respectful of her as

well like it's a very like positive

energy and as the night goes on Hawk is

very obviously watching her and he makes

some moves and tells her to meet him

later she's like I'm working and he's

like you're going to meet me later thank

you and um he continues to insist on

calling her baby um and he says we knew

that wasn't going anywhere I think like

in our hearts if we were honest with

ourselves we knew knew so she asks like

why do you keep calling me that and he

says because nobody puts you in a corner

and

so so she starts calling him

swayy oh gosh ironically and he doesn't

appreciate it so she continues to do

it

um so she leaves him I don't even know

what I would say if my husband ever

called me baby and said it was cuz

nobody put me in the

corner

like I don't know why that's striking me

so hard I would be like are you going to

do the

lift

because that's the only reason Ryan

Gosling and Crazy Stupid Love where she

like what's your move I do the

lift yes take him home I make him a

drink I fit Dirty Dancing into the

conversation I do the do the

lift literally the only reason to say

any comment about somebody putting me in

a corner but

anyway um so unless you're also quoting

panic at the

disc we just ran a whole gamut we really

of Pop Culture you're welcome yeah

that's why the people show up obviously

um give the people what they

want slightly not fully fleshed out pop

culture

references I am curious sometimes about

how many people catch all of them and

how many are like I I don't and then we

go so fast to the next one that they're

like oh I got that one and like you know

yeah I feel the same

uh like as you know Golden Girls very

near and dear to my heart but it's so

funny CU I've loved the show since I was

literally an elementary school and there

are so many jokes you don't catch when

you were in elementary school with a

show like that but what was also funny

is I was watching it just had it on in

the background when my parents were in

town and my dad started laughing at a

joke and he's like do you get why that

joke was funny and I was like I don't

even know who that was and it was this

like very specific political sit

situation from like

1990 that I was like yeah like NE didn't

even dawn on me like heard the laugh

track and just kind of like moved on and

my dad like do you get why that was

funny I was like

nope watched the show for 30

years still have no idea why that joke

was funny I can still get joy from the

show and not get every joke yes 1,000%

yes of course I mean the exact same way

they fit adult jokes into like kids

movies the first time I realized

watching cars that they flashed their

headlights yep I was Ill

prepared I was like oh cars is edgier

than I thought

edgier yeah Shrek is another one that

had a lot more

like dirty jokes in it that I was ready

for yeah the number of kids things that

we could just rewatch and be like wow

missed that joke oh and then the number

of adult things we could also watch that

well no wonder I missed that joke right

good thing I missed that joke yeah

probably better that I didn't get

it yes my innocence was somewhat

protected up until that point um but

anyway so she leaves Hawk Missy leaves

Hawk and goes out to continue working

the party does she agree to meet him

later or is he just continuing to tell

her she will she's continuing to tell

her that she will and she knows that

she's going to but don't think she like

tells him she's like yeah right so um

there's this guy out there that's being

like a real douchebag to her and he's

the only one that's given her trouble

all night and he's is it the one she

beat up no oh okay he's actually quite

sweet to her he's like my bad Missy you

were right I'm really sorry I shouldn't

have done that in front of your daughter

yeah why don't I get you a drink yeah

he's like I really should have waited

until Katie was back with you and then I

should have

be so H say 2020 I'm so sorry I'll do

better next time never happen again um

but apparently like and she goes into

this like later but um apparently the

guy she beat up and her ex were super

tight friends she has no idea what

happened she has no idea why they fell

out and we never know but apparently

they were like Diehard besties and then

Drew just beat the [ __ ] out of him one

day and they were no longer friends wait

what I didn't even put it in my notes

cuz it wasn't relevant to the story but

that's like does Drew have his own book

in the future I don't know I don't know

CU I do wonder if some of the questions

would get answered in future books you I

don't know okay and we'll get to why I

don't know because there's a reason why

I'm really like I don't know that it

will ever will'll ever get answer um but

so she this guy who's being a dick

smacks her ass hard like not like a a

gentle like baseball Pat but like hits

her hard um and she tries to ignore it

she's been working in strip clubs for a

long time she's like I know how to

handle this so she tries to ignore it

but he grabs at her again and starts

blowing smoke in her face cuz he's

smoking and um she pops off at the mouth

a little bit basically telling him off

and um he goes to grab like between her

legs and burns her with a cigarette cuz

he does it with the hand that is holding

a

smoke Burns her bad and a whole struggle

ensues and Hawk shows up with some of

the other guys and at this point no one

realizes that she's been burned right

her wrist is very clearly [ __ ] up from

where he grabbed her really hard um but

they don't realize the full extent of no

they don't realize that she's actually

like genuinely really hurt and so they

one of the other guys like holds her

back and Hawk just beats the [ __ ] out of

this guy um and Missy is freaking out

and um so we sh Hawk's perspective he is

livid and this is the guy that had

creeped out cie his cousin it's that guy

the dude who's supposed to be the

bouncer bartender uhhuh who's supposed

to be keeping everyone safe

uhuh well that's a a I I don't think he

understands the job assignment he

doesn't get it he doesn't get it so Hawk

fires him and rightfully so um the guy

is like starts laughing and Missy is

clearly panicking because this man is

unhinged and like Hawks firing him

because of her and she's like holy [ __ ]

like I did not mean to do all that like

oh [ __ ] you didn't Missy she didn't this

is the consequence of his own actions

and choices he needs to take

accountability and ownership for his

behavior his portion of this this is not

on you mhm so um

Bishop who is the president and Hawk's

biological Uncle shows up and he's like

what the [ __ ] is happening like what is

going on right now and

um the I had actually just been

wondering where Bishop the head of all

of this was he just showed up that yeah

I was like showed up like literally 5

minutes ago I was like I I really feels

like like Bishop I was like whatever

what's his nuts should be here I did not

remember that his name was Bishop was

going to be impressed if you had cuz I

forgot about him until I just saw his

name in my notes well when his name was

Bishop earlier I assumed he was still

part of the

cult like it felt like he showed up to

the church like I was like okay I see

where we're going with it so he has a

hat

like yeah I was like yeah and then

you're like and he left I'm like oh

that's really not where I he's the

president of the motorcycle club I was

like but his name is

Bishop I was not prepared we're just

keeping you on your toes really so

Bishop has finally shown up in this

scenario and the guy is still like

laughing that Hawk would try to fire

him and um the bishop and Hawk kind of

like connect eyes and um confirming that

Hawk is in fact firing this guy like I'm

doubling down on this decision and the

guy loses his [ __ ] when they tell him

like you are for real fired okay so the

guy was laughing because he's like you

don't even have the authority to do this

sort of energy then Bishop showed up and

the guy was like haha look I'm about to

keep my job and then Hawk and Bishop

made some eye contact and then Bishop's

like oh no this is for real bro you're

out and then the guy was like oh [ __ ]

I'm actually fired yeah and he's like I

loved it it was really good and so the

the guy is like we have a [ __ ]

contract you can't do this so Hawk the

everloving [ __ ] out of him I thought he

already did that he hit him a little bit

but then he like really got him and he

sends Missy inside to his room like he

hands her off to one of the brothers and

is like please take her like up to my

room obviously she's not okay but they

still don't realize that she is really

hurt so um the uh this the dumbass goes

off again calling Missy a [ __ ] he's

like so you're going to fire me over

some [ __ ] you're in violation of

contract blah blah blah blah blah so

Hawk shoots him in the hand he's like

that's the one you touched her with

right get off my

property and that's the end of

that so the guy leaves like his buddies

the guy doesn't want to leave but his

buddies like pick him up and like

like own that you've lost bro like you

are not going to come back from this

next one's going in your head bro like I

don't feel good about this we should

leave so Bishop tells B move to

physically assault someone and then tell

another person you're in violation of

contract

right like but what about our contract

what I thought I could like sexually

assault whoever I

wanted a contract that wasn't clearly

written

I don't recall that in the conduct

Clause you aren't holding up your end of

this bargain we have a signed agreement

I'm like wait what the

[ __ ] yeah mhm okay he's an idiot yeah so

um Bishop is like so it is now your

responsibility to find new security for

the bar before it opens next week and

then he asks Hawk he's like

so you realize like she's your girl now

right and Hawk's

like um Bishop's like just just go check

on her like just go did Hawk not realize

that or he knew that he was into her and

definitely like wanted to bang her he

just shot a man in the intrigued by her

but I don't think he fully connected

like had her sent to his room at the

club yeah that is a statement in itself

it is which Bishop picked up on and Hawk

was like

oh you realize you just made some

declarations right and Hawk is like had

no idea man I see it now now that you

mention it so we're back to Missy she is

really not doing well she is in a lot of

pain and she knows that she needs to

clean the burns on her leg um but taking

her shorts off is really gonna suck so

she's like trying to psych herself up

so haot comes in and he sees the burn

and so he calls the like medic nurse the

do they have yeah to come check on her

and um he gets her into a bath in like

lukewarm water and he just holds her

while she cries um and she is really

frustrated that she keeps crying around

him she's like this is not a thing that

I do and I hate it I don't like it

um but he takes really sweet care of her

the doc shows up and gets her all

patched up um and uh Hawk then takes her

home to her home yeah and um Missy

reminds herself that this is all just

adrenaline at this point um he's not

actually like taking care of her he

doesn't owe her anything he just feels

bad that he hired her for this and she

got hurt and he's just making sure that

she's okay there's nothing like going on

cuz she's feeling very vulnerable so his

Bishop has finally been like hey Hawk

you realized the Declarations you just

made right and Hawk's like [ __ ] I guess

I did just make some declarations Miss's

like nah there are no declarations this

is all adrenaline 100% um so we're back

to Hawk and he wakes up to somebody

banging on the door and Missy is as

sleep on his chest so she thought that

he was going to leave like just drop her

off at home and he never had any

intention of doing that so she fell

asleep on his chest and he the night

made sure she was okay mhm so he answers

the door to find Katie with some old

woman who had apparently been watching

her the night before and um the old lady

clearly does not want to leave Katie

with him um but Katie recognizes him

from the park and is super excited to

see him and the old lady makes several

threats and old lady have a name I don't

remember it's like Ms something one of

those yeah um and she's like I'll be

checking in later I will ruin your life

like listen I love how protective

everyone is of Katie yes she is the

priority for literally

everyone um which becomes even more

apparent later um but he gets breakfast

for Katie and she's just super cute and

really chatty um and she asks why Missy

is still asleep and he's like

uh I don't know the rules of what you're

supposed to tell a child she worked late

that is the answer Hawk it's not

hard but he's never been around a child

this low hanging fruit he has never been

around a child and he's like ah oh [ __ ]

me like why is Mommy still sleeping well

because someone sexually assaulted her

last night and burned her with a

cigarette she had a long night she's

she's resting and will be up in the like

he's like he's like

um he she hurt her leg and so she's

resting and it's like um Bert crer stand

up when he's talking about

Santa and Jesus

yes oh Jesus's brother

Santa yeah gives a present every year to

the people who didn't kill his

brother however it like play but

like he's like yeah and then like the

Jews like it was this whole and his wife

was in like what the [ __ ] this is how

you're describing Santa to the kids like

that's what it feels like right now like

it could have been that it could have

been so simple why do mommy asleep oh

Jesus's brother Santa you're like no it

didn't we didn't have to go that deep

need to to be there but then

like so the kid immediately is asks if

her dad did it she's like did daddy hurt

mommy oh damn and so um that's not great

Hawk like starts to panic a little bit

but then Katie goes on to say that he's

never physically hurt her but he makes

her cry a lot and um she is super cute

and she's like and finds her very

endearing wants to keep her safe very

much so um but she says that she tells

her daddy not to be mean to her and her

mommy but he doesn't listen and Hawk is

like I am [ __ ] like well that's it for

me like well like gu I may as well make

myself a set of keys to this place

basically he's like I'm never leaving

like damn it um so uh Bishop calls him

and says he's coming by to drop off some

contracts and we don't know what these

contracts are but Hawk knows that it's

probably going to piss Missy off but

he's just going to do it

anyway we don't know what that means

so Missy wakes up in a panic cuz she

realizes it's after 11:00 and the sitter

was supposed to drop Katie off at

7 and she's like oh Jesus Christ I would

do the exact

same so she's having a lot of trouble

standing um when Hawk suddenly storms in

and picks her up and he's like what are

you doing and she was like

um what what are you doing

like what um and he's like

she's like I can't believe that you you

stayed here

like what wait she didn't realized he

stayed there she fell asleep on his

chest well they also gave her some pain

meds apparently cuz she was really hurt

so like I think she was like out of it

um but Hawk's like quit comparing me to

other men and she's like what is

happening she's like I'm not comparing

you to anyone I woke up 4 hours after my

daughter was supposed to get back where

is my kid and why are you here and

injured and want to know where my

daughter is don't compare me to other

men yeah it I wasn't he he can't read a

room he he he can't read a room yeah at

any he's really not having great

understanding of social cues he doesn't

have good Insight no to his credit

though he was raised in the cult where I

imagine that's a good point a cult and

then a motorcycle club so there's

like you know standard social norms

maybe we not his

thing yeah yeah that's a good point I'm

going to give him credit for that

because I need I need to give him credit

for that yeah because I'm if I don't

give him credit for that I'm just like

what the

[ __ ] which again don't compare me to

other men I'm really not I'm just trying

to get it where's my kid where's my kid

I just want to know what's happening so

then he kisses the hell out of her of um

but then she starts to reciprocate and

he stops her and he says that um he

really wants more of her but her

daughter has been waiting for her and

like she needs to go check on her and

eat something you know taking good care

of her so Missy comes out and Katie is

playing Go Fish with two massive bikers

and having a great time um they keep

pretending to be really upset that she's

beating them and it's just very cute and

super endearing that these massive men

are like dang it

like very cute Hawk's like don't worry

Katie's perfectly

safe with some bikers was like trying to

think like biker name that sound really

like she's with Scar and Terror like

yeah for some reason I was going to say

Tony one had the scary name one was just

the dude in the

club with

Drew and switchblade yeah with Drew a

Nash over there

exactly yeah but that is super cute it

was a very cute moment so

um Missy like doesn't know what to do

with herself cuz she realizes that Hawk

has taken care of everything like the

kid is fed everybody's fine she's a

single mom who is always used to having

to do everything and being like Oh wait

every everyone has their needs met

everything has been taken care of

exactly and she goes to try to call her

boss and hawk is like hey I already

called your boss um um and said that you

won't be in because of your injury and

she starts to panic about she's like

okay so I only have this much and I need

this much and how am I going to do that

and

d and um Hawk is like are you done

panicking now have you have you gone

through that um we want to hire you at

the new bar at the new sports bar you

did a great job at the party um and we

would like to hire you to help us manage

the new

bar um and that's what the contracts

were like he just decided they were

going to hire her and just went ahead

and called the strip club and was like

Missy is not coming back like well okay

I was just being like Oh giving Hawk all

this credit and then you said that he

called her job and quit on her behalf

well he said she wouldn't be in for the

rest of the week but he was like in his

head hoping yeah okay I feel better

about that yeah all the

contracts he's like here's your employee

agreement [ __ ] hey there is a

non-compete there is a non-compete I

don't actually know they didn't go into

for the other sports bar down the road

she would just go back to to stripping

probably what was it called rush rush

the rush I was about to call it the

fuzzy hole and I was like that's really

not the name it's just I almost called

it the flush the FL that's different

it's different yeah different energy at

that club um so um she is feeling much

more hopeful that this is like her way

out of the way she's been living um but

she says that she needs to think about

it she's like doing a little hard to get

moment so then she's at the park in the

bat in cages and she's thinking about

the day that her dad threw her out of

the house um he is a politician and

couldn't stand the idea of a teen

pregnancy in his family um and her mom

okay but I will pause though and say

that is our answer we did cuz I was like

okay so she's like a very very young mom

so we do get an answer to the context

and how we all like just kind of that

backstory cuz I feel like when you hear

you're like oh she's like a 22-year-old

mom of a

4-year-old this makes some stuff

happened I'm glad that we have this I

know there are probably more

questions there really

are but um her dad basically said I

can't have a teen pregnancy in my

home it's not great for my campaign

exactly mom was basically drunk all the

time and didn't stand up for her and so

that was it like she was on the street

basically on her own um and that's why

she was working two or three jobs and

having to live with with this [ __ ]

piece of [ __ ] baby daddy because she

didn't have any other

options so um she's thinking about all

of this while she's in the batting cages

at the park and she comes out and she

finds Hawk's sister Grace there and

Grace tells her that um she thinks Missy

is really good for Hawk um and she's

glad that he is opening himself up to

love and Missy is like

um he's my new boss what are you talking

about love is a big word but okay like

we've kissed once she's like I'm not

going to argue with this Little House on

the Prairie moment here I'm just going

to let that ride she's pregnant we're

not going to take this away from her

we're just going to let her have it

she's worried about her brother she's

like uhhuh like okay I'm just so excited

my brother has found you you're so good

for him you're like I've known your

brother for 3 Days he's opening himself

up to love and I'm so excited it's like

H worst wing woman sister ever but once

again to her credit she did grow up in a

cult and is still in one and is still in

one and is very pregnant with twins

she's doing her best and probably like

doesn't realize that what she's saying

is not uh helping Hawk as she thinks it

might be it's not so Katie uh it comes

running over from the pr playground

without her shirt on and jeem is like

chasing her apparently she like got some

water on it and like pulled it off and

started running around the

park and um Grace like locks up

and Missy notices that she's looking at

a bunch of guys in like khakis and weird

pastel button-down shirts across the

street and um they're like very young

guys and Grace just like takes off all

of a sudden and gets into a van with

them and Sh Missy is like what the [ __ ]

is happening like Miss's like I'm

literally just trying to raise my

daughter she's like I'm trying to mind

my own

business what

what so

um yeah so Katie is excited about going

to get special ice cream cuz she C can't

have eggs and eggs is in most ice cream

so that's a very central theme of all of

this of like making sure that Katie is

safe making sure that you know Katie

doesn't get into anything she shouldn't

have so then 4 days

later Missy goes to the clubhouse and

Hawk has been checking on her by like

text and stuff but they haven't been

alone he's like stopped by the house and

like dropped off food but it's been very

much like just making sure that she's

okay and um he which I also appreciate

it's very sweet yeah it's very like hey

I'm not trying to overstep I just care

about you want to make sure you have

what you need mhm definitely um and she

is really excited to see him and so he

is outside cleaning his

bike and um

um when she gets to him like there's a

bunch of Brothers outside and um he

tells her that it's just just unprompted

she like walks up to him and he's

like hello it's time for me to make you

come like wait what I don't think that's

the exact line but that is 100% the

energy where he's just like it's time

for me to make you come

hello are you ready to

orgasm basically and he's like get on

the bike that he's been cleaning

right um okay so instead remember on

once scrubs yeah yeah when uh Elliot had

never orgasmed before yes and yes uh-huh

and she was like okay next time you do

your laundry yeah like on the washing

machine yeah that's wait for the spin

cycle yes that's what it made me think

okay it's time for you to come get on my

motorcycle I was like oh the vibrations

of the bike yes so instead of behind him

he puts her on facing

him um no stop and turns the bike

on and they make out and then he takes

his dick out and just gets inside her

under her dress all his brothers are

like all around them also working on

their

bikes so that's

happening also why would you turn the

bike on it's going to heat the pipes so

he was very particular about where to

put her

legs so she would appreciate the

clarification said she wouldn't give

birn I was

[Applause]

I was like what the actual why' you're

in the bike tell me you've definitely

ridden a motorcycle before without

telling me you've definitely ridden a

motorcycle

before no I've had a fear of God in Me

about like burning my leg on a pipe yes

yes she's in a little sundress too she's

not dressed to be riding really but she

she's to be riding

something so wow bold mve very bold so

he like in her ear I don't know if I

aspire to but in my head I'm like I

aspire to that level of sexual

confidence and I don't actually know if

I do but there's I'm like

wow just the thought of like as you said

getting your dick in someone under their

dress on a running motorcycle surrounded

by all of your closest Family

yeah is a

choice it is a choice voice one that

Missy is very into she is very much

enjoying this moment and he like they're

not moving like to be clear he's just

inside her with the motorcycle yes he's

soaking he's soaking with a motorcycle

he's soaking on a motor I'm sorry you go

to

BYU drive a motorcycle you don't even

have to get a third to shake the bed oh

my God God soaking

backing just on a

motorcycle on spin cycle so many

Ops oh no oh my face

hurts so they're just soaking on a

motorcycle surrounded by his friends

okay yep and so he like leans in and

Whispers in her ear that like anyone

watching would think that you're mine um

um do you want that I know you want that

like all that kind of stuff is happening

she ignores all of that and it's like

are we going to do something about the

situation that we're in or are we going

to continue to soak yeah so he rolls the

motorcycle into the garage and kicks

everybody else out he's like everybody

out so so he does have his limits yeah

and all the guys are like laughing but

they go out and like close the doors

behind them and um he then finally

orders her off the bike he eats her out

against a wall until she comes and then

um she

like she's having this moment where like

she wants to trust him and like wants to

let him just kind of have his way and

like take care of her and stuff but she

feels very conflicted about it um you

mean the woman who's had to be like

entirely self-sufficient since the age

of 18 yeah yeah so um she is very

quickly distracted from those thoughts

of not trusting this situation um when

he then [ __ ] her on the workbench in

the

garage and um lots of Demands for her to

say his name or he's going to stop um

and then one of those yes one of those

at least it wasn't up mine like but it

was like mine mine mine mine I want to

hear my name when you come like that

sort of thing yeah yeah yeah um so they

both do come and then feel like there

was also probably a you grip me so tight

probably that that's the energy it's

giving yeah yeah mhm you better say my

name when I spill inside

you can you feel me painting your walls

like think about is how you almost did

Singaporean anime as a voice over with

that weird growly voice you just did I

don't think that's the voice they wanted

me to do when they asked me to do

Singaporean anime sure it wasn't but

that's the first thing I thought of oh

my face

hurts I also want to know I got asked to

do that when I was like 17 like I was

like is that weird like it wasn't at the

time like looking back on it I was like

what the [ __ ] was I doing as a

17-year-old being I'm going to be a

voiceover actor for Singaporean anime

yeah still would have been so cool would

have been so cool yeah I wonder how

they're doing I should check on them I

hope they're well um but anyway they

both come um we love when everyone gets

an

orgasm so then um they are like getting

themselves back together after and Missy

she's wearing a sundress how much is

there to get back together well there

was pulling down of the top of it and

you know I forgot that everyone left

yeah yeah so clothing got more shifted

than when they were just soaking on the

bike

correct so um Missy remembers to tell

Hawk that he saw Grace um and she

doesn't outright ask why does your

sister look like an extra on sahlan and

Tall but she kind of is asking that and

Hawk explains that she lives in a

compound called the valley wait what did

Sarah Plain and Tall do you remember

that no oh my God but is it Sarah P it

was Glenn

Close Glen Close played Sarah PL and

tall I don't remember that oh odd oh I

feel like I'm missing such a huge pop

culture reference well you're probably

not I am probably in the minority of

people who remember this brief moment in

Glen Clo's career when she played Sarah

PL and Tall but I was almost named after

one of the characters Anna was the

daughter my mom was going to name me

Anna but then the morning that she went

into labor she read the story of Samuel

and his mom was Hannah and so she named

me Hannah instead of Anna

I mean if we remove the hes right it's

basically the same but so Sarah clean

and tall is this okay pause before you

even explain what I thought you said

Sarah P and tall and I was like I

thought it was like an SNL

sketch and I was like you know maybe

some people might feel like Sarah

Palin's family looks like they dress

like they're in a cult I don't know

feels like a very three pointed

reference no Sarah Plain and

Tall and it was a book that was turned

into like a miniseries I guess that Glen

Close was in and I think Christopher

Walkin was in it I'm GNA have to look

that [ __ ] up well I'm going to say if

you had Glen Close you probably had a

very well-known male actor as well I'm

almost positive that it was Christopher

walin but basically like this widower

has two kids and a farm and he puts out

an ad that he needs help like taking

care of his kids and so this woman Sarah

writes to him and says hi I'm Sarah like

I'm interested I'm plain and very tall

um I would be willing to come help

whatever and so it's like their story of

her coming out to take care of his kids

and help with the

farm I have no memory of this actually

like I've never seen it I'm going to

have to look it up so I can confirm but

I am

like

87% sure that it's Glen Close and

Christopher

wkan I we'll confirm

later yeah we'll confirm later but

anyway S I have like 15 more thoughts on

this half of them are probably about

Sarah

Palin so we'll just move on M mhm we can

move on yeah so Hawk is explaining his

sister being an a

cult um oh okay so like she cuz I guess

I really hadn't considered that that

like Missy doesn't know his history she

doesn't really know anything about him

that there's like a whole nearby cult

that's very prominent all she knows is

he has this one twin sister who dresses

funny and talks kind of funny but that's

all she knows so he goes on to explain

that

like the the compound where Grace lives

has a lot of beliefs about women that

they're very much property that they're

only there to like pump out babies all

that kind of standard patriarchical

[ __ ] and um Missy asks why he's not

there too like if Missy is there why

isn't he there and he explain Grace is

there yes if Grace is there I was like I

was like I think you I was like I meant

Grace I thought you meant Grace but I

was like on the very slim chance you

didn't I was like hold on is this book

about to take a very large pivot that I

did not anticipate no okay it was Grace

yes it was Grace so um and he explains

he has like scars on his arm that are

covered by tattoos um and they're from

his punishment they're from the snake

bites um and so he explains that you

know Bishop saved him and she says that

she understands scars and shows him her

c-section scar and tell tells him that

she almost died and so did Katie when

she was in labor and no one was there to

help her like baby daddy wasn't there

her parents weren't there she was

completely alone in the

hospital um and Hawk feels this like

strong protective urge but also a lot of

Pride that she's so strong and that she

had been through so much um man I had a

friend I thought it was the most

endearing thing I'd ever heard she was

having a c-section her husband came to

the hospital he did not bring any of the

necessary [ __ ] to bring to the hospital

he did bring a pair of

binoculars in case they made him stand

far

away which I thought was the sweetest

thing I'd ever heard well also I can

imagine that if Vance brought a pair of

binoculars to the hospital when I was in

labor I would have been so pissed if I

didn't have anything I need a phone

charger and leggings what the [ __ ] I'm

like I needed the stroller fan with the

little like wire arms that I could put

on the side of the hospital bed cuz I

needed the air while I was pushing more

than I needed [ __ ] binoculars but I

thought it was the most endearing thing

I had ever heard in my entire life

that's very cute yeah that's super cute

oh my gosh at least somebody showed up

for her right no that was my thought I

was like I was like man what a blessing

to like even if you're annoyed with your

husband he showed up with binoculars

because he was that excited and wanted

to make sure he didn't miss anything

like I can't imagine yeah completely

alone and she talks about like how

grateful she is for the nurses who were

super supportive and helpful to her and

Hawk feels like this this pride and this

desire to protect but also this like he

feels honored that he is going to be the

one moving forward that like she has let

him take care of her even a little bit

and he wants to continue that so um he

then asks if she came by just to use his

body he's like why did you actually show

up here was it just for the dick because

we never we never asked why never after

all of that we never asked why she

showed up so then um she just showed up

and he was like it's time for me to make

you come yeah like she didn't even get

to like have a greeting it was just like

get on this dick and that was it right

so so she's like well also I'm taking

the job and I'm I'm on my way to quit

the strip club right now oh so she was

stopping by to tell him she was

accepting the position yeah yeah um so

it's all very cute as she is leaving to

go to the club and he again realizes

that he is super [ __ ] he's like well

I'm a goner that's it for me I'm done

right um so then Missy is at the club

she's saying goodbye to all the girls

and she's just kind of having fun

hanging out with them for a little bit

what was the turnaround time on the

paycheck here I don't know like cuz I

was really thinking this through cuz I'm

like okay well if the bar isn't opening

when are they going to start paying her

at the at minimum she's not going to get

her first paycheck for probably two

weeks so they did hire her to come in

and help finish setting up

the bar okay but I'll say that even most

pay structures like yeah she still is

going to be in it yeah yeah so I'm like

okay how long do you need to stay

stripping until your next we're

concerned about your finances Missy

Katie needs to be protected she needs

her EpiPen

yes that was actually where my I'm like

okay what are we doing to make sure

we're setting ourselves up for financial

success for our daughter

here so so she's having fun at the club

and um she gets called outside by one of

the B bouncers and Hawk's sister Grace

is there oh and um she's like she

doesn't explain anything she's just like

we need to get to Hawk right now we got

to go right now and Missy is like okay

get in the car like just get in like

let's go talk about it be about it let's

let's strap our seat belts and go she's

like I'll find out when we get there

clearly this is urgent so Grace is

trying to explain that she has to tell

Hawk what's happening she's clearly

panicking she's like Hawk has to know

like I have to tell Hawk and C like

Missy is like okay all right I'll drive

you it's fine yeah take a deep breath we

got this so before we figure out

anything the car is hit head on at a red

light like they are fully stopped at a

red light and somebody intentionally

hits them and Men start pulling Grace

from the car

and Missy is coming too as Grace is

being pulled from the

car and um she fights the best that she

can while Grace is screaming at her to

run she's like you got to run you got to

run um she Nails one of the guys in the

eye and then takes off like her car is

still sort of running and so she just

takes off for the club house cuz they're

pretty close but all she can think about

is that Grace is almost 9 months

pregnant with twins and these men could

be doing anything to her and she's like

freaking out oh that is a deeply

terrifying situation yeah she's freaking

the [ __ ] out but she knows that she

can't do anything so she needs to get to

Hawk so she I pause though I like I

actually really appreciate that like

someone who like knows their boundaries

and like kind of knows their scope and

it's like I don't have the necessary

skills to do anything to protect this

woman and I'm not going to stand here

and like try and like be the

hero

conion right she's like I'm bleeding

from the head like there's not a lot I

can do here yes so she is just doing her

best to stay awake at this point so she

knows you're right like she knows her

limits in this moment and so she takes

off to get to

Hawk so he's working in the garage when

he hears a car horn like we're back to

Hawk and he's like what the [ __ ] is that

and he sees M's car is pushed up against

the Gate of the clubhouse and two trucks

are like coming in at her and so he gets

to the gate with his brothers they chase

the trucks off with guns and um Missy is

clearly dazed and she's trying to tell

him like what happened and your sister

and all of the things they took Grace

like you have to help Grace um and this

book really goes from 6:00 to midnight

it really does so quickly it really does

and it just continues like once it

starts it doesn't stop with like

the so she just keeps saying over and

over I got away I got away I got away

and he's like you did you're okay you're

okay um and so he is freaking out he's

very concerned about his sister rightly

so but Missy is very hurt and she is his

priority in this moment he's like I have

to take care of

her so Missy gets the all clear from the

doctor and she's feeling very guilty

respectfully I have to say should that

situation have happened should my like

should my husband well when we were not

married right but like that's who I'm

I'm like if I had been in a car with his

sister who was 9 months pregnant with

twins and he was like you're my priority

right now I'd probably be like I [ __ ]

shouldn't be right have you thought

about your twin sister yeah like I'm

clearly okay enough like we can Circle

back to me but right now I'm not the

priority well so part of it is that he

realizes that it's the cult that took

her okay and they will not hurt her

because of the babies like the babies

are too valuable because they need their

savior so they're not going to hurt her

okay so he like is aware of that he

knows that she's not okay valid he but

he also knows like her physical safety

at this moment is not in jeopardy

because of the pregnancy right meanwhile

Missy is actively bleeding from the head

so like you know touche I I can I can

walk back my words a little bit well no

like I see where you're coming from with

it of like but that does also make sense

that he like recognizes that like with

the setup and structure of the cult that

his sister well like it was very scary

and they were hit also why would they

hit her if she was pregnant well so it's

a whole thing oh okay sorry I'm no it's

okay it's okay because she so Miss's

feeling really guilty um that she didn't

do more and Hawk is reassuring her he's

like listen I know who took her because

she's like we have to find her like what

could this be and this is where he's

like I already know right I already know

that it was the valley um and uh that's

when he explains the ritual with the

snakes like he didn't tell her before

but he explained the whole thing

now and he tells her to rest he's going

to go pick up Katie from school I'm

going to take care of everything like

you're going to be okay so his plan

Hawk's plan was to wait to see if Grace

showed up at their Meetup cuz it was

only like one or two days away uhhuh so

he was

thinking maybe they didn't like her

hanging out with a

stripper somebody over reacted right

like maybe it was something like that so

he's trying not to panic and he's like

I'm just going to see if she shows up to

our

meet so it's a couple of days later and

Hawk's Dad shows up at the clubhouse

demanding to know what he did to

Grace and

um I know I know I

know just the Gentle Way I know Chelsea

I know I know exactly what you a couple

days later okay sorry go on it's fine

it's fine a day or two

whatever so um he Hawk's dad says that

Grace was moved into what they call a

prayer house and no one will tell him

why what is a what is a prayer house so

apparently it is a place where they send

people who have lost their way

so that they can reconnect with

God not that they've drifted so far that

they need to be bitten by snakes but far

enough the intervention depending on how

this goes right snakes might be the next

step intervention is needed okay we're

going to put you in this house until you

either repent or get bitten by a snake

correct so um Hawk and Bishop chased out

off eventually um

and Haw had thought again that he was

going to wait but now he

realizes he can't wait he's like if

she's in a prayer house I don't know

what's happening to her her husband

isn't there to protect her like like

that's bad like it's real bad

now so um so it's not just isolation it

could be substantially worse than that

right um so he thought it would be safer

for her and for his brothers to wait MH

but now realizing that is not the case

and so he is coming in hot he and Bishop

roll up to the town where the cult

operates and the cult sends what is

essentially three teenagers with

automatic weapons to tell them to leave

and um they do not they just sit on

their bikes and wait and his brother who

was the one who betrayed him shows up

Isaac of course his name ISAC yep if it

wasn't it'd be Elijah how the [ __ ] is

his name Hawk Hawk is not a Biblical

name so that's not his actual name but

his actual name is not biblical either I

don't remember what it was feels like

they were really leaning into the

biblical of it all Grace is the only one

who called him the name but it was like

tayor or something like it was not

biblical and In fairness to his dad he

had 37 children so maybe he

like ran out I

mean maybe he was like down to to

Methuselah there's a lot of chapters in

The Bible all of them are named after a

different person so I really like

Matthew Mark I mean I recognize some are

not right like you're not going to name

your kid Galatians I mean you might but

you I don't I'm not here to judge I

wouldn't but you might name your child

Samuel like right like yeah I recognize

not all books of the Bible are named

after characters in The Bible so don't

at me about that but

but I do feel like there are enough

biblical names I know someone what like

whatever like the um Hebrew word is for

like that literally means like girl like

little girl that is used in scripture

they named their daughter that like what

it's escaping me I don't remember but

that word right I'm like I feel like

there are so many options for bi

biblical names that if you're going to

lean that hard you can find 37 if you

try hard and believe in yourself right I

mean Ruth

Esther we can go fully Old Testament

Mary right like we can

go Hannah like we can go full we can go

all the way you know Rachel yeah

Rebecca we have so many great options

available to us we need to stop we'll

just keep going

anyway yeah I would lose that at some

point like I'm like you're going to win

if we're like okay I don't know that to

be true

I was like Rebecca really was probably

the final one I was thinking of that is

literally my sister's name as is Mary

Diana oh that's a good

one yeah I once so Jezebel you probably

wouldn't name your kid that but it is a

name in the Bible have you seen the girl

on Tik Tok that does parody videos and

she calls herself jezzy

Beth she like hey girls it's jzy bath

and I'm like I'm obsessed with you my

God she's incredible

yeah um all of all of the biblical names

I had a friend in grad school ironically

my friend's name was algra not a

Biblical name but whenever she was like

you know how they say she had weak

eyes she like in scripture was it Leah

who had the weak eyes I think

so my friend would do a Leah impression

and like cross her

eyes it was one of the fun like in the

time when I was like in

seminary it was Peak

comedy oh clearly it's still is cuz I

like almost I see that yeah I'll have to

find a photo and send it to you cuz I

remember taking a photo and being like

algra do your weak eyes and she's like

okay and I snapped a photo cuz it was

that good that just makes me think of my

dog who is soft eyed Sophie soft oh we

also forgot about Eve I'm sorry oh Eve

Lilith sorry

anyway the laugh with

it

sorry soft DED so yeah she's blind for

anybody who doesn't know my dog Sophie

is mostly blind so we call her sof eyed

Sophie well so I have a friend back in

Nashville that at one point was running

a bunny rescue I don't know if she still

is but at one point she was and she had

two bunny bunnies at one point one was

named clous Von bun bun I got to babysit

him once it was such a delight he

blended into my rug cuz my my rug was

like black and white checkered pattern

and I I loved CLA Von bun bun she then

got a second bunny who I think the name

was olive and Olive was blind and so

then clouse kind of

became the guide bunny for Olive okay

that's adorable yeah it was a whole

thing but it was like super cute that's

adorable yeah it was a whole bunny

rescue I don't know if it still exists

but if it did we'll link it here so our

listeners in Tennessee can support the

bunny rescue and if you don't live in

Tennessee but feel strongly about

bunnies we got options we have options

options where so where are we at this

point but

anyway I got us very lost so Hawk and

Bishop are in the town confronting Isaac

oh yes Isaac just shut up we got on our

whole thing Biblical name because of

[ __ ] Isaac y so en are probably

Brothers as well sorry keep going e so

Isaac says that Grace is safe and happy

she's just reconnecting to God and Isaac

no one [ __ ] believes you not a single

[ __ ] person just reconnecting to God

what does that mean as soon as someone

says you don't need to worry about them

they're just reconnecting to God you

immediately need to go you need to call

the FBI yes like things are not okay

that needs to be reported like no no no

um um so Hawk is like okay well all that

better be true because I will [ __ ] you

up if you hurt my sister right um so

we're back to Missy she is setting up

the

bar um she's still trying to work and

like you know cuz they don't know what's

going on she's just trying to stay

focused also really just pausing for a

second

mhm I need to let me math let me pull my

calculator because 37

[ __ ] kid like and he has seven wives

yeah each of them has had at least 5.28

children y they each have at least five

yep and then obviously a couple have at

least oh oh my God it's too

many seven wives each of whom have at

least five

children so every time I read seven

wives all I could think of was Seven

Brides for Seven Brothers which is not

the same not at all it's not the same

it's not the same um I thought of I

growing up uh one of the books that my

parents would like read little like

stories to us from was called apples

snakes and belly AES do you remember

that book no um it's like in retrospect

I think like

Christian nursery rhyme sort of but

there was like a whole like rhyme story

about um Solomon having to kiss each of

his wives good night

is it Solomon that I'm thinking of I

could yes it is I'm pretty sure Solomon

had a whole herum yeah and like the

whole thing about how we had had to kiss

all of his lives good night which is

also kind of a racy bedtime story for

kids now that I think about it yeah I

heard a thing the other day um I was

watching some video and somebody was

explaining that Solomon in the

Evangelical Christian tradition is like

the wisest of all Kings and all this but

in the original Hebrew translation when

they call him wise it's super sarcastic

and he was actually a [ __ ] idiot I

don't know if that's

true huh but I hope it is well honest

that's hilarious there have been some

moments where I'm like we're really

giving this bro a lot of credit we're

doing so much for him so that would that

would connect some right missing dots

that whole paradigm shift for me I had

yeah whole paradigm shift I just

remember being in school and taking a

class on

Ecclesiastes written by what a party

right my professor was like

okay here's the summary of

Ecclesiastes life

short yeah you get married you raise

some kids you move to Sarasota and

[Laughter]

die I was like well that's an

interesting take on

Ecclesiastes I realized this is very

Nation only for people who know anything

about never mind it yep mhm I was going

to say for for those of you who also

have religious trauma we're so glad

you're on this journey with us for those

of you who don't have religious trauma

and don't know what the [ __ ] we're

talking about don't look it up yeah just

keep living your life recommend yeah so

they were having the conversation with

Isaac and Isaac was like she's just like

reacquainting herself with the lordine

yeah she's totally fine yeah so we're

back to Missy okay she's setting up the

bar getting ready for open um Hawk comes

in and he's super upset cuz he's

straight from his brother right and they

have a real heart to heart and he shares

the guilt that he feels about his sister

in general um cuz he even though it

wasn't on purpose he left her there

um and that's his twin and just there's

a lot going on

there and um she gives him a little bit

of SASS and a little bit of support and

he declares that he's just never going

to let her go um which is Bold

and jeem the bestie comes in who is also

working at the bar now um and absolutely

destroys the moment by telling them not

to Chris in the bar when literally

everyone is right here she's like can

you not [ __ ] on the bar we're all like

right

here and Missy is like you're just

jealous you don't get to have sex on the

bar and Jem's like who says I haven't

already and then walks out and Gem is

just my favorite I was literally just

thinking Gem's like hey guys please

don't [ __ ] on the bar like we're trying

to get our health code clearance right

now it's really not going to bode well

trying to stock the bar and you not

you're just jealous cuz you can't I

already have [ __ ] just don't do it

right

now wait at least until close please um

so then is that what they're into though

like this like it like an exhibitionism

kind of like lean judg All God's

Children sure that's never called out

but it does feel it does seem like we

are a little leaning that way yeah okay

so then um it's Sunday lunch at the club

um Missy gets to know everybody she's

having a really good time and she's

starting to be really overwhelmed by how

awesome everything is because she's so

not used to it and how sweet Hawk is

with Katie um well and I can imagine

like she has literally been on her own

for 4 years being a single parent

managing also navigating her abusive ex

yes and that's like she's process ing

that and kind of like goes away in her

head and is thinking about all the hard

times before of like having to drop out

of high school cuz she hadn't quite

graduated yet and um not being able to

go to college like she planned and

running out of formula because her ex

took all her money and like all these

different things and um she realizes

that she's not going to live like that

anymore this is her new family she feels

really connected to them um like the

guys have all clearly embra her daughter

and want to like love her and make sure

she's safe and taken care of they've

protected Missy as well like it's all

very like supportive and kind and lovely

well just that moment of like oh I don't

have to struggle the way I've been

strugg like yes man what a weight off

her shoulders huge relief huge relief um

and so that night

um uh with Hawk she like very playfully

puts some ice down his shirt while he's

making drinks which of course leads to

temperature play um and

he there's a lot of [ __ ] happening

and we love that for them lots of be a

good girls happening and

um So eventually he comes on her tits

and then she like licks it off of her

hand or whatever and he says you

shouldn't have done that I hope you're

ready to get [ __ ] again because I was

really going to let you rest and it's

just that's the energy the whole time

okay so there's all this sweetness and

kindness and support but then there's

also a lot of that

happening life's about balance

um so it is sorry keep going um so then

um Hawk is on a mission to find his

sister as well that's all that's running

as well so he finds the locations of all

of the Cults Properties by basically

threatening an attorney um who handles

all their

stuff and he makes plans to find his

sister he's like okay so we know these

are all the locations of all their

properties we're going to have to split

up we're going to have to systematically

search

whatever so then Miss's working the bar

it's now fully open everything's going

great three guys that ask for ice water

and specifically ask for her to serve it

um and she thinks maybe they know her

from the strip club because that's

happened before where guys have like

remembered her and requested her

whatever but she just gets really but

then they're all wearing khaki pants and

collared shirts yeah she gets real weird

Vibes um and and not in the way that the

at the start of the book was giving

weird Vibes no one of them says he just

wanted to feel her

energy she's like what the [ __ ] is

happening and one of them like grabs at

her and she punches him in the face like

she's just like nope nobody will be

touching me nobody will be touching me

thank you and um security shows up

whatever Bishop calls Hawk to let him

know what's going on

and um well I love that they did find

new security they did find new we love

that for them yes they did find new

security um so Hawk is home with Katie

watching her and getting her ready for

her birthday um and cie the cousin is

there as well and she gets real freaked

out all of a sudden because she sees

someone out in the yard and um Hawk is

like okay I have to find a way to keep

Katie contained in the house and not

freaking out and so he's like hey Katie

the floor is lava make sure you stay

stay with cie and so he goes out to

check it all out oh so Callie's there

too yes cie the cousin yes is there okay

yes but that's convenient it is helpful

yes um and um as he's like checking the

perimeter of the house he's thinking

about how he wants to make it's his

house more of a home so that Katie and

Missy would want to move in and um he's

like I really think maybe she was seeing

things maybe there was a reflection but

then he finds a footprint in the flower

bed by the window and he's like [ __ ] me

like that's real bad yep that's not what

I was hoping would happen here uh-uh so

then Bishop calls that's when he gets

the call that somebody attacked Missy

and so he's like well that's all quite a

coincidence

isn't

it um so Missy finishes her shift she's

really not all that worried about this

situation so at this point are they

thinking it was like a coordinated

planned attack or are they legitimately

like oh that's kind of a coincidence

they're like that's weird there's no

such thing as coincidences well and

Missy doesn't realize like these are

cult people she's not familiar with them

the only one she's ever interacted with

is Grace Grace and then the three people

that or the the people that Grace got in

the van with that she saw right but you

know touche she didn't grow up in it

she's not it's not on her radar to be

aware right of it okay so she's like

they were weird but like that's it so um

Missy realizes as her shift is wrapping

up that she hasn't been back to her

apartment like all week um Hawk had

gotten a bed for Katie and like set up a

room for her and had been picking up

Missy after every shift and like getting

Katie from school and stuff and she's

like trying to reconcile that she has

people now like that she has people who

care about her and want to help her oh

my heart I know like people she can

count on she's like that's really weird

but Hawk has been very

like not subtle about just like just

just come on in but she hasn't noticed

like even though he's not subtle she

like not picking it up because she's so

not used to it yeah which is sad um but

it is Katie's weekend with her dad and

he is an absolute douchebag calling Hawk

a criminal um and all this other stuff

and she's just like listen I'm not going

to do this with you this is your time

with Katie please just enjoy your time

with Katie like I'm not doing this yeah

just like be a dad this none of this is

relevant just be present for your

daughter yeah it's none of your business

it's none of your business so Missy then

goes to work at the bar and um Hawk says

he has a present for her and she's like

o okay and it's epipens it's one for

every place that Katie spends time so

one for each of the houses one for each

of the cars like so so

sweet um and Missy is super overwhelmed

by how like thoughtful and kind that is

and she's like how can I ever repay you

for this and he's like just move into my

house he's like that's literally all I

want at this point and just like be with

me yeah and he's like listen if you're

worried about it I'll pay for your

apartment for your little for a little

while until you're comfortable like

fully living with me like just please

just just stay with me

and um yeah we don't you didn't even

need to give up your lease I'll pay for

that too yeah buddy just be with me like

he loves her and this kid so much he's

just like all in and so Missy is

like I'm I will move in with you like

calm down a little bit and also great

gesture you didn't have to buy my

daughter 15 EP pins for me to move in

with you I would have done it for no EP

pins right right but this doesn't hurt

hurt because this is very helpful and

convenient I love this journey yes yes

so um she's like listen I'm just going

to run by the apartment after my shift

to get some stuff um and Hawk is like

that sounds great I will see you at home

like really excited about

it so she gets to her apartment um and

there is a man there with a ski mask on

demanding to know where Katie is what

yeah so he like comes at her um comes at

Missy and she can't get to the door or

her phone so she's starting to freak out

so she makes it to the kitchen she keeps

him talking and the guy says that Katie

is the chosen one and they will come for

her does Katie have a cross-shaped birth

mark so literally no idea at this point

like Missy is like what the [ __ ] a

chosen one like what like get out of my

apartment freaking out

yes so she gets to a butcher knife and

just takes this guy the [ __ ] out so like

big fight and Sue she's really hurt but

she takes the guy down and she finally

gets to her phone and Hawk answers he's

like hey baby you almost home and she's

like I killed someone and he's just like

I'm coming my notes say a true ride or

die yes like that's it okay so not quite

the same and a little a little bit more

morbid of a situation if I'm being

completely honest a little bit more

morbid different but also like still

more so like Vance had only been married

for like 5 months and I was at work and

my mom had texted me Vance my sister and

my brother-in-law that my dad had had a

heart attack and had to be LifeLight and

bless my mom's heart so like where my

parents live is in the middle of nowhere

there are there's a major town um they

live like right on like the North

Carolina Tennessee order there's a major

town 45 minutes east of them in North

Carolina and there's a major town 45

minutes west of them essentially in

Tennessee my mom had been in North

Carolina in that major town for this

like speaker convention I don't [ __ ]

know my dad got LIF flighted they live

in Tennessee he got

LifeLight to the Tennessee hospital M so

my mom text all of us um that like he

had to be hospitalized and had was was

taken to the hospital and my mind just

went completely blank on why I started

this story it was morbid and he's a true

Rider die and she called and said I just

killed someone and he said I'm coming

yeah the funny thing is I had a full

reason why I started this story and I

don't anymore I was trying to give it to

you no you really were something about

Vance you were only married for 5 months

oh no it was the phone call oh and how

he was like yeah baby what's up so Vance

hadn't seen these phone calls or these

this text come through and I leave work

early and I decide that I'm going to go

home because like my co-workers were

like what do you need I was like I need

to not be [ __ ] here they're like

you're right go home and like so sweet

so supportive but Vance calls me on the

way home hey baby what's up how's your

day not great oh oh what's up did you

read the text messages my mom sent you

no what's going on like it was like

legitimately like that phone like hey

like yeah

hey honey you almost home just had a

great workout on the way back to the

house what do you

need it was like literally that's like

obviously not that situation as far as I

had not killed someone but like just the

weirdest sensation of like knowing your

life is like potentially falling apart

fully shifting and talking hey what's up

oh my God can't wait to take this call

right and you're like no no come with me

on this journey yes like

yes it was it was that and like I was

like did did you get my mom's text no

what's

up well guess I'm going to be the one to

break the news yeah it was like that

yeah yeah so not saying I killed someone

get know but similar energy yeah yeah it

is a very disconcerting kind of phone

call to have yeah yeah baby having a

great day what's going on like well yeah

everything's could be about to change

um and so Hawk immediately shifts

obviously and he's like yep on my way

got you got this yep he shows up with

his brothers Missy is covered in blood

and really busted up this poor girl has

been busted up from the moment that she

meets him she is like busted up um

unfortunately probably busted up from

the time she got kicked out of her house

yeah she's been struggling for real um

but it is his brother Isaac that is down

the floor yeah it's his brother Isaac

from the CT I honestly wasn't I I did

not was a big gasp so it really was I

was not prepared for that to be Isaac

yes yeah it was

Isaac so

um she's like trying to explain to Hawk

like what he was saying to her and she's

like something about Katie's the chosen

one and hawk like hold up hold up hold

up does she have a birthmark and she's

like yeah she has a weird little cross

thing on her

sternum Grace had seen it at the park

that day when Katie had taken her shirt

off and was running around all

crazy and

um she was taken Grace they are putting

together Grace was taken because she was

trying to warn them that they needed to

hide Katie because the cult was coming

for her

so um Hawk is going into like full

protection mode yes and Katie's dad

won't answer the phone like they're

calling him over and over and over again

and he won't answer so they are not

calling the cops Missy is like am I

going to go to prison and they're like

baby girl shh like never speak of it

we'll take care of it go get your kid we

got

it so uh

they get to baby daddy's house and no

one will answer the door so no one's

answering the phone no one will answer

in the door God and The Neighbor comes

out and he says that he heard yelling

and that someone took off in a car um at

some point and he doesn't know if Katie

was with the person who got in the

car so they bust down the door and haot

goes in and um baby daddy is dead he's

been shot and they can't find Katie

anywhere so the cops show up and one

volunteers to take Missy back to the

station to get photos of Missy for an

amber alert and like to put stuff out

and um Hawk is like great idea because

he doesn't want her to see MH anything

right and yet I feel like this isn't

it's a terrible idea yeah it's a bad

idea let's not separate

yeah because it turns out he's a member

of the cult

and um he tells her that she made one

chosen one she can make another and she

realizes that means they don't have

Katie and she's like well thank [ __ ] for

that like where is Katie but at least

they don't have her yeah especially

where is Katie if Katie's biological

father is dead and had been the one with

her and someone took the baby right so

where is she so Missy is praying to baby

daddy to be like I know that like you

loved our daughter for what a [ __ ]

you were you loved our daughter like

please protect her like wherever you are

please take care of her so Hawk is

pissed at the cops because they keep

talking to the MC members and asking the

same questions over and over and they're

still just like more like interrogating

them and he's like we aren't getting to

where we actually need to get you are

wasting time investigating my brothers

right now where is Katie like why are

you doing this so um all of us love her

we've played Go Fish yeah yeah stop we

have a

connection so he is about to take off

and like go to the police station to

meet up with Missy when he hears Katie

calling out to him and he's like what

the [ __ ] he's like everybody shut the

[ __ ] up like everybody shut up and um it

turns out that her dad there was like a

um a old wooden box to like keep wood in

uhhuh and he had like put her in there

and told her to hide yeah he told her to

hide and be

quiet and so she had hidden and been

silent and while Hawk was pacing and

yelling about the cops she heard him and

started yelling for him yeah and so they

finally get her out father for something

I know I know at least he like protected

her so they finally get her out and she

tells the cops everything that she heard

and Hawk is super protective and the

guys are right there like the cops try

to take Katie from him and the guys are

like yeah we're not doing that um and so

the cops suddenly say he's like cuz

Katie is asking for Missy and question

and you may have said this earlier and I

may have missed it I thought they

weren't going to who who called the cops

who involved the neighbor the neighbor

called the cops okay sorry you probably

said that I miss no I didn't it they

heard a commotion but also with a dead

body like that they knew they had to

call the cops because Katie was gone and

they have baby daddy is dead right and

they all have a connection to him so

like hiding him would have been bad

anyway the neighbor that was kind of my

thought was I was like so the MC show

shows up and like Missy's like who's

calling the cops and they're like don't

do that quite yet but now the cops are

there so yes okay yeah um so the cops

never find out about

Isaac they didn't call the cops for

Isaac the MC cleaned up the apartment

and that body but not baby daddy

okay sorry all of it together there's a

lot of locations there's a lot of

locations and dead bodies um so

um the cops then tell Hawk that Missy

never made it to the station the cop

that

we he's not answering the radio they

don't know what's going on and he's like

obviously the cult took her and he

overhears the cops say an address in Ann

Arbor like they tracked the car they're

in Michigan by the way um so there's

some random address in Ian

Arbor so he gets jeem the bestie to come

get Katie um and is like well looks like

I'm going to get my woman and like all

his brothers take off so Miss's taken to

a house and the men tell her grace is

there and if she fights or runs they

will kill Grace and that's how they're

like controlling Missy at this point so

um she's locked in a room Grace is

really okay but she's freaking out and

she's like I swear I didn't tell them

anything those boys I was with that day

saw her I was trying to warn you she's

like really like guilty that all this

happened which obviously Missy is not

blaming her for not at all um but then

Grace's water breaks oh [ __ ] what what

is this book I know I know so um Missy

is like screaming for help and they

finally come and they tell her um that

she is going to make another chosen one

and they like haul her up and they're

like getting ready to like tie her down

and [ __ ] understand how birth marks work

no they don't or how like they don't

we're going to tie you down in 9 months

and the hopes that this second child has

a cross-shaped birth mark so I will tell

you I have a birth mark on the back of

my knee mhm that is red and it has like

three

lines and when I went to visit my

grandmother in her assisted living home

many years ago when I was a child this

old lady saw it and started screaming

her head off and said it was the mark of

the devil and apparent L if I had been

born like in the 16 or 1700s I probably

would have been killed because of this

birth mark what yeah yeah cuz I looked

it up later and apparently like it is

the belief that like if you have a red

birth mark that's shaped like that that

it's like the devil's handprint I was

like super I love that well okay that is

fascinating not where I thought we were

going cuz so when I had my son when I

had Ford Ford had had stork bites he had

one on the tip of his nose and he has a

little one just under his right eyebrow

and then he has one between his eyebrows

and I was like oh yeah this happens um

then I also noticed he has like almost a

square shaped red birth mark at the back

of his head and he has like a little

like normal like brown birth mark on the

bottom of his foot but for the ones on

his head they are all red my dad has an

identical Square birth mark on the back

of his head and several of my family

members have had that ex identical stork

bite like and I know stor bites are like

pretty common but like the exact

locations of like weird yeah so when you

said that like you had that I thought

you were going to say like you like your

like Grandmother Had a matching one and

I was like oh I was and then I was like

having this whole existential moment was

like holy [ __ ] are the shapes of birth

marks gen like genetic and I neverbe

they are maybe I don't know cuz I also

had a mole that looked like a um a

bullseye like it was dark and then light

and then dark in the middle huh super

cool but they were like hey this could

be cancer so I don't have it anymore but

I was like oh my God that's exactly what

they looked at for witches for like a

nipple to feed your your familiar or

whatever and then I have this [ __ ]

birth I I would have been dead you would

have with a swiftness oh my God I would

have been dead you would not have

survived I would not have survived Sal

and not even because like were you over

Salem when you worked for like was was

wasn't Salem one of your regions that

was in my region but like not even

because people are like I am the

descendants of the witches that you

failed to kill not any of that literally

just because of my weird [ __ ] birth

marks you're like I'm just trying to

live my life and have some birth marks

I'm not trying to like Manifest this

energy or call these Spirits I'm just

trying to live y'all not trying to have

a familiar I I like cats but like I like

cats but not like that I mean like I

don't want to [ __ ] a cat and it seems

like y are almost at that level with

your there's a lot there yeah I'm not

into

it but anyway

sorry okay where yeah so she gets hauled

up in front of the prophet and um The

Prophet's like 80 and it's a whole hot

shitty mess and he's a douchebag and

she's like well I did kill that guy you

sent for me and they all start to freak

out cuz they they didn't know that Isaac

was dead right one of them said we

haven't heard from Isaac and she's like

oh Isaac's dead cuz I killed him like

yeah so um then the Men start saying

that they don't think that she is pure

enough for the

Prophet The Prophet is the one to

impress

yeah it's lots of ick um and so um he

says well this is easy just bring the

snakes and we'll test her the [ __ ]

snakes the [ __ ] snakes bro so then

just as they're bringing the snakes out

someone starts yelling that the bikers

are

here and all the men except the prophet

run like everybody like cuts and run

they're like when we're done and so the

prophet says that if he's going to die

he's taking Missy with him and he lights

the room on fire so

then Hawk is a man on a

mission and they find Grace and she

tells him that Missy is here she's okay

like and he's starting to realize like

he loves Missy like this is really bad

like he needs her back and he's freaking

out Grace goes to the hospital they find

Missy behind a wall of fire with the

prophet and so um Bishop gets everybody

else out of the house Hawk gets Missy um

he knocks the Propet over and this whole

thing he gets Missy out of window and on

his way out he releases all the snakes

and just listens to the prophet die

scream and um he tells Missy they have

Katie Grace is safe everything is

okay and it's all lots of relief all

around right so then two weeks later

Missy and Katie are at the baby daddy's

funeral and she feels nothing but

gratitude that he Protected Their baby

in the end like she doesn't have any

bitterness towards him she's just really

grateful that he was quick enough and

put Katie Safety First yeah um Hawk is

waiting for them outside um Katie has

been struggling with a lot of nightmares

and she often wants Hawk like she

reaches for Hawk to feel

safe and um it's all very sweet he's

very very sweet with her and then Hawk

takes them to the hospital to check in

with Grace um she named one of her twins

after Missy um but she is planning to go

back to the valley so even though they

killed the prophet the the cult is not

over yeah the cult still exists for sure

like that's still her life so when Missy

and Katie or when Missy and grace are

alone she asks why why would you stay

like not judging just honestly like why

would you do that and Grace says that

she loves her husband and that he's a

good father um but also she knows that

if the valley doesn't make some some

major changes now that the prophet has

died um that she will leave that she

can't raise her daughters in this

mhm um but also that she will give up

her freedom for her children so like if

she can't also get her kids out she will

stay so um gra I entirely understand

yeah yeah absolutely um so then Grace's

husband show shows up and so they all

take off because they don't want any

conflict they don't want to make things

harder on Grace yeah so then it's two

months later um Hawk finds Missy in the

stor room of the bar and sees a bandage

like on her hip and he goes immediate

caveman thinking that she's hurt um and

she actually got a swayy tattoo

and she says if we ever break up I I can

just tell people I'm a big fan and then

he [ __ ] her from behind lots of

Declarations of

Love um and then he also gives her the

paperwork to get her GED um if she wants

to because he knows that that was

something that had been important to her

before and he said it's whatever makes

you happy if you want to work in the bar

forever work in the bar forever but if

you want to go back to school like I'm

here for you

so then a year later it is Katie's first

day of kindergarten and Missy is like

yelling up the stairs for her and she's

not answering and so she like hauls up

the stairs and she hears Katie telling

Hawk that she's really scared to go to

school um and Hawk is very sweet and

reassures her that everything is going

to be fine you have plenty of family

like we're not worried about it it's

okay if those kids don't like you like

it's not like everybody's going to love

you you he's like who gives a [ __ ] like

kids are stupid um which is very on

brand so um then as they're getting

ready to leave they hear motorcycles

coming down the street and he sends

Katie out to see who's here right and he

tells Missy that um he wanted everyone

to know who they'd be messing with if

they [ __ ] with his kid and the whole

club showed up to take take her to her

first day of kindergarten so that she

would feel safe and okay um and it's so

cute and he said um the whole club

wanted to be there it's not like he made

them show up they wanted to come um

because that's her family and family

should be there for all of her big

firsts um and it's lots more

Declarations of love and just happiness

all around and that's the

end it's a journey yeah I find that

that's true of all motorcycle romances

true where I'm like okay and then I'm

like wait a minute I feel like the only

person whose like motorcycle club

romances haven't seemed like

completely out of left field to me have

been like Kristen Ashley MC romances

where I'm like oh that's because like

she every Kristen Ashley book is the

same main character yeah we're just

changing their job you know and so I

think that's why that one we can call

them the leader of an MC we can call

them a private eye for all like care

they're still the same Alpha former Navy

SEAL it doesn't matter

1,000%

yeah so this is

a that that was a journey yeah I feel

like a lot of these are very much like

early o soap operas yes where it's like

and then there's an identical twin and

it's like she didn't really die and it's

like okay all right I signed up for this

you're like I'm sorry I watched her get

cremated but sure I'll suspend belief

that she's back now it's fine she just

resolved her contract dispute with

producers so now she's

back like how are we going to walk

ourselves out of this

one yeah Drake Romero was that his name

what was the what was Joey's name on

friends oh I think it was Drake

something it was Drake

something it might not be Romero I don't

remember no I think it's not Romero but

I'll have this is going to bother me now

I'll figure it out in the future it's

not relevant what's our ratings scale

snakes snakes yeah

snakes Okay how many snakes is this out

of

um I'm going to

say like

seven cuz that's the Lord's

number sure we can do seven I'll go

like four out of seven that's what seven

yeah because the thing is like stuff

like her parents and all of this like

angsty [ __ ] with her parents never comes

back stuff with like Hawk's dad who

showed up for that one minute and then

was gone never comes back and never gets

resolved so there's a lot of this stuff

that's

like yeah but also the story was

interesting and Hawk was very sweet and

Katie was very cute and like it was a

fun read yeah yeah and I really

appreciated Missy's tenacity yeah that

is another thing I liked that it wasn't

like she was so independent that she

would not allow help and like made her

life harder yes but she wasn't so

helpless that she was like a hot shitty

mess the whole time just waiting for a

man mhm it was like this weird happy

medium that you don't usually see yeah

where she's like I can take care of

myself and if something can like come in

that is adding to my life I will

consider it but like my life is not easy

yeah but I'm also not going to like

shift on a moment's notice exactly for

some random dick exactly yes yeah yeah

which I appreciate so I would say a

comfortable four out of seven snakes

four out of seven snakes yeah yeah it

motorcycle romances are hard because

again and and like also the the um uh

security guy never came back he got shot

in the hand and then was like cool with

it he never came back I was waiting for

him to show up and like [ __ ] things up

yeah like he was going to try and attack

Missy again or something that would make

sense honestly that's like when you said

it was Isaac and her like I didn't know

I was like it could be so many people

like it it was probably just a random

person from The Cult right like it like

I was like it could have been the dude

who got shot in the hand for groping her

it could have been any number of people

could have been any number yeah so yeah

that's another thing that like I feel

like there were some missed

opportunities with it but like it was

still

enjoyable um well and also on the flip

side I think we've equally read those

books where they like they do try and

make sure that no stone is left unturned

and they give all of that like we we get

clarification on the dude who got shot

in the hand we get clarification on the

dad like we get clarification all of it

but at the end of it you're like [ __ ]

a it was 600 pages and I did not care

that much I was waiting for Robert to be

like the the security guy to be like

secretly a part of the cult or something

like I was waiting for something yes um

but that's okay cuz again it was still

enjoyable it was still very sweet and

like and not overly complicated yes it

was a warm fuzzy read um so I'm

comfortable with a four out of seven

definitely let us know your thoughts if

you read it yes let us know what you

would rate it how many snakes what kind

of snake is our rating system cuz that's

a whole other conversation Copperhead

yeah that is an option yeah yeah I would

go Copperhead feels more intimidated

than like a little garden snake sure

yeah I wouldn't go water moccasin cuz

I'm genuinely terrified of those this

book didn't seem scary enough to justify

water moccasin no yeah so I would agree

yeah four out of seven choose your own

snake

adventure heo and oh yeah that honestly

that worked on more levels than I had

even anticipated I did I didn't give

myself enough credit damn yeah way to go

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