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  The Town of Pearl 5

  Sage’s Story

  Sage Jones is an adrenaline junky. The rush keeps her heart hollow and allows her that slight sensation of feeling an emotion. She’s blocked off everyone, yet pretends to be just one of the girls. Until four sexy, hot men penetrate her heart, make her feel things that scare her, arouse her, and show her that not all men cause pain. She’s one tough woman, well trained by her family members, and it comes in handy one night when someone tries to abduct her.

  Virgo, Dale, Quaid, and Matt London break down her defenses and show her that by their side is right where she belongs. But they're not the only ones interested in Sage, and it’s too late when they realize the one they are hunting was amongst them, and someone they trusted in the town of Pearl.

  Can the men get to her in time, or will Sage end up losing the battle once and for all?

  Genre: Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Romantic Suspense

  Length: 50,117 words

  SAGE’S STORY

  The Town of Pearl 5

  Dixie Lynn Dwyer

  MENAGE EVERLASTING

  Siren Publishing, Inc.

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  SAGE’S STORY

  Copyright © 2014 by Dixie Lynn Dwyer

  E-book ISBN: 978-1-62741-720-4

  First E-book Publication: May 2014

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  DEDICATION

  Dear readers, thank you for purchasing this legal copy of Sage’s Story from the Town of Pearl series.

  There are many changes in this beautiful town where second chances are found along with true love. Sage has been through so much, and over the years, as she’s grown and matured, she’s also hidden a lot of those fears from her past. It takes four very special men to make her see that love and affection are beautiful things when there is trust.

  May you enjoy Sage’s journey as she realizes that the adrenaline rush she seeks that only temporarily wipes out the fear of being hurt and abandoned are nothing against the power of true love, and the ultimate completion she will feel if she just gives that love a chance and opens up her heart.

  Happy reading.

  Hugs!

  ~Dixie~

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Dedication

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Epilogue

  About the Author

  SAGE’S STORY

  The Town of Pearl 5

  DIXIE LYNN DWYER

  Copyright © 2014

  Prologue

  Sage Jones stood with her hands on her hips as Bobby and Clay Greenway and a group of their buddies showed off their dirt bikes. They knew she knew how to ride. Hell, she was one of the few girls in town who dared to go that fast on a dirt bike and keep up with the boys, never mind surpass them. But these guys had been dodging the sheriff and his deputies for weeks now. People were complaining. If Wyatt Cantrell or Kenny Jones found out that she was hanging out with them and riding these bikes, they would be angry. Kenny would tell Lena and the others, and they would flip out. But she loved the adrenaline rush. She was twenty-two, finished up with the community college, working at The Main Street Inn & bed-and-breakfast and trying to put her past behind her. Lena couldn’t understand why Sage was so secretive. She loved her, but she just didn’t get it.

  “You think you’re so bad, let’s see how fast you can go with one of the deputies on your ass?” The girls egged them on. Her friends chuckled as they looked the guys over with nothing but sex on their minds. Sage shook her head. Sex was the last thing on her mind. She was still a virgin and quite happy as one. Her past, the things that Triumph did to her, left scars on her body and constant reminders of a man’s power over a woman.

  She was so afraid to become intimate with a man, she never dated, never fooled around, and pretty much tried to act like one of the guys. She also liked to live life dangerously. If there were a dare, a challenge of bravery, and even stupidity, she would accept it. This was her hidden side, as far as Lena, and her men were concerned. Her friends, some of them having their family issues, or just need to feel mature and invincible, did lots of crazy things. Just because they were college grads didn’t mean they were so smart. She smiled to herself. Lenny and Davie Mathews were practically geniuses, and last week they bungee jumped off of the bridge in Turbank in the dark. Yeah, definitely not the brightest of geniuses. Who am I to talk? I did it, too.

  As the guys started talking about racing and heading closer to town to really egg on the deputies, she felt guilt hit her belly. The sheriff, Wyatt Cantrell, Deputy Kenny Jones, and the others were very se
rious about maintaining the peace around town, which included following the speed limits through town and on the outskirts. As the guys planned their route, they argued about who could beat Clay Greenway.

  “You couldn’t beat me even if you had a Kawasaki Ninja 300. You’re so full of shit,” Clay stated.

  “Bull crap. My Honda CBR 500 can leave your ass in the dust.”

  Bill, Corey, Lenny, and Sage’s good friend, Davie started arguing with Bobby and Clay.

  “Shit, I bet ya that Sage can beat all your asses on my Kawasaki. It’s the driver, not just the bike, you assholes.” Lenny egged them on now, and she wondered how she got pushed into this argument.

  They started challenging more, placing monetary bets as Amanda wrapped an arm around Sage’s shoulders and whispered to her.

  “You have got these guys so riled up. You can have your choice of any of them as boyfriends. They all have money, good looks, come from great families. You so need to stop your whole vow of chastity thing.”

  Sage gave her a funny expression and told her to cut it out.

  “They’re all just friends. You know how I feel about the whole guy-and-dating thing.”

  “It has to do with your past. We get it. But you were like almost seventeen then, and now you’re twenty-two. Isn’t it time to say fuck it, and grab the world by the balls and take what you want?” Amanda asked.

  Sage chuckled. “What are you some inspirational speaker suddenly? I sat in class with you. You froze the moment Professor Gordon asked you to recite the paragraph from the play we were analyzing.” The others chuckled.

  “She’s just a horny little thing. Has her eyes set on Bobby and Clay,” her friend Mary whispered and they laughed.

  All these guys were cute. Bobby, Clay, Bill, and Corey Jacobs, and Lenny and Davie Mathews, but they were around the same age as her and her friends, and she just wasn’t attracted to them.

  Being on the streets hardened her. Being abused and nearly dying made her grow up fast and feel way older than she should feel. That was why speed and danger replaced that old feeling, with youthfulness and life.

  “She won’t do it. She’s never driven a Kawasaki and won’t be able to keep up with us,” Bobby said as he eyed Sage over.

  “I bet you a hundred bucks she not only will keep up with you, but she’ll beat your ass back here,” Corey challenged as he pulled out a hundred dollar bill. The guys and the girls started whistling and bets were on.

  “Wait, I didn’t say that I would do this,” Sage interrupted the celebrating and excitement.

  “See, she’s fucking chicken,” Clay added as he eyed her over.

  Sage stared at him and his pompous brother who thought they were the best of the best. Maybe it was time to set them in their place?

  She slowly began to unzip her sweater, the guys watched, knowing she had a set on her. She was no longer a gawky, flat-chested teenage girl from the hoods of Detroit. She was well endowed and muscular from always working so hard and working out at Dalton and Hank Lewis’s martial arts dojo. Blake, Bryant, Quinn, and Kenny, her adopted dads, insisted that she learn how to fight and defend herself.

  The whistles started as she pulled off the sweater and tossed it to Davie.

  “Who has a jumpsuit for me to wear?” she asked, with her hands on her hips, her short shorts hugging her ass and toned thighs as the guys stared at her drooling.

  “Use mine. It will be big, but hey, I’m willing to let you use it ’cause thinking about your body in it will keep my engine revving the next time I put it on,” Corey teased, as he pulled a second jumpsuit in black out of a duffle bag.

  “Are you sure about this, Sage?” Lenny asked as she took the jumpsuit and began to step into it.

  “If you have a hundred to put down, do it. That’s how sure I am,” she told Lenny, and he shook his head.

  “That woman has a death wish.”

  The five of them got on their bikes and started the engines. Out at the edge of town through the woods and trails, no one could hear the echo, the roar of their engines. Sage took a deep breath. The smell of gasoline, grease in the air, and the firm, hard metal between her legs fed her adrenaline. She would show those Greenway and Jacobs boys that she was not a woman to mess with.

  She revved the engine and prepared to follow Bobby through the makeshift route, but once they headed back toward the clearing, she was going to leave him in the dust.

  Amanda pulled off the bandana from around her neck, conveniently red. The woman watched too many movies about racing. She lifted it and then threw it down as they all took off.

  Sage felt her heart racing fast. It was pounding inside her chest and in all honesty, the Kawasaki she rode was high end, over eleven thousand dollars and faster than the older Honda she used.

  They were moving at a high speed once they exited the woods and the long fields before picking up on the highway, past seventy miles per hour and surprisingly the ride was smooth. They gunned it on the highway and she was grateful no troopers were on patrol. But considering this baby did 130 miles per hour, she wasn’t worried about losing them. Getting busted by Wyatt and Kenny would be worse. As they came down the long run outside of town, a deputy car came out of nowhere, sirens blaring and racing to catch up to them.

  “Oh shit.” She revved up the engine, going a little faster. If Wyatt, Kenny, or any of them caught her, Lena and her men were going to be pissed off.

  As they passed the sheriff’s department, she saw Wyatt and a few deputies plus two other huge guys she had never seen before.

  She was utterly shocked when Bobby and Clay headed straight through town as Bill and Corey cut through the side street obviously giving up on winning the race and focused on not getting busted.

  She had no choice now as they dodged cars and pedestrians and more deputy cars followed.

  She was heading out of town, when the deputy cars were moving up on them fast. Bobby skidded to the right, nearly slamming into the patrol car, and Clay to the left.

  “Oh shit!” Sage did a wheelie, not intentionally as she screamed but somehow maintained control of the super fast motorbike and gunned it off road and up the rough terrain. Instantly she lost the deputies, and made her way straight through to the meet-up place. Submerged amongst the deep greenery of the woods, she slowed down, looked over her shoulder, and saw that she had lost the cops and the others. As she sped through the woods, she skidded out in front of her group of friends. They were cheering and then looking for the others.

  “Hide the bike. The deputies were chasing us,” she yelled as she pulled off her helmet, and then quickly stepped out of the jumpsuit.

  Lenny and Dave rolled the bike deeper into the woods, as Sissy, Mary, and Amanda shoved her jumpsuit into the duffle bag and threw it into Davie’s truck.

  “Holy shit. You won. You beat them!” Amanda cheered.

  “We better get the heck out of here,” Lenny stated just as they heard the motorcycles coming from the far end of the woods. They turned and looked. There were Bobby and Clay.

  They were laughing as they got off their bikes and then hooting and hollering as Bobby grabbed Sage, lifted her up, and twirled her around in a circle.

  “Holy shit, girl. You are fearless.”

  “What the hell happened?” Lenny asked, and the guys explained.

  “Then she did a fucking wheelie in front of the sheriff’s building with the sheriff and deputies outside of it. It’s all over the radio,” Clay added.

  “It was not in front of the sheriff’s office,” she corrected them.

  “Holy shit. You could have been killed!” Davie yelled at her as he grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her.

  “Kenny, Blake, Bryant, and Quinn would have my ass, never mind Lena and the others.”

  He was really upset.

  “Davie, I’m fine. Look at me,” she said as she turned around in the circle. The other guys howled and her friends all cheered, just as Bill and Corey headed over the hill and into the wo
ods. They turned off the engines and got down off the bikes. They looked white as ghosts.

  “What is it? What’s wrong?”

  “We can never do anything like that again. Holy shit, Sage. You kick ass. Here.” Corey told her as he pulled money from his pocket and handed it over to her.

  She accepted the winnings from everyone and smiled. “It was a pleasure doing business with you, boys.” She grabbed her sweater, stuffed the money into her bag, and put the backpack on.

  “Let’s get out of here. Put the bikes in the back and cover them up. Hopefully no one recognized any of them,” Davie said in annoyance.

  Sage looked at Mary. “Give me a ride back home? I need to change before I head to work.”

  “Sure.”

  As she looked over her shoulder at the guys, she knew that Davie and Lenny were upset. Truth was she was too old and too smart to be doing shit like that. But there was no way she was going to get busted. Not with Kenny, Blake, Bryant, Quinn, and Lena as her legal guardians. Even though she was twenty-two, they had legally adopted her at sixteen to show her how much she meant to them and how they accepted her as family.

  It was her own hang-up about being so close, and opening up her heart to others, that kept her black and hollow inside. Maybe someday she wouldn’t feel so afraid and so unaffected by emotions. She hated how dark her thoughts were. She also hated how easily she tempted fate, and took risks even when the consequences could be detrimental to her health. In some ways, she craved the need to feel something touch her deeply, and the desire to feel anything. Even if it were pain, it was better than feeling empty and as if she didn’t have a heart at all.