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  Restraint

  Heaven Hill Generations #5

  Laramie Briscoe

  For everyone who loved Caelin and Justice from the first moment they were mentioned.

  It’s taken a while, but I hope you enjoy their story!

  Laramie

  Contents

  Also By Laramie Briscoe

  New Release Alerts

  Members of Heaven Hill

  Blurb

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Epilogue One

  Epilogue Two

  About the Author

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  Copyright © 2021 Laramie Briscoe

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  This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, or any events or occurrences, is purely coincidental. The characters and story lines are created from the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any trademarks, service marks, product names, or named features are assumed to be the property of their respective owners, and are used only for reference. There is no implied endorsement if any of these terms are used. Except for review purposes, the reproduction of this book in whole or part, electronically or mechanically, constitutes a copyright violation.

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  Cover Art by: Laramie Briscoe

  Proofread & Beta Read by: Danielle Wentworth

  Cover Photography: Deposit Photo

  Also By Laramie Briscoe

  The Haldonia Monarchy

  Royal Rebel

  Royal Chaos

  Royal Love

  Heaven Hill Series

  Meant To Be

  Out of Darkness

  Losing Control

  Worth The Battle

  Dirty Little Secret

  Second Chance Love

  Rough Patch

  Beginning of Forever

  Home Free

  Shield My Heart

  A Heaven Hill Christmas

  Heaven Hill Next Generation

  Hurricane

  Wild

  Fury

  Hollow

  Restraint

  Bishop

  Heaven Hill Shorts

  Caelin

  Christine

  Justice

  Harley

  Jagger

  Charity

  Liam

  Drew

  Dalton

  Mandy

  Rockin’ Country Series

  Only The Beginning

  The Price of Love

  Full Circle

  Hard To Love

  Reaper’s Love

  The Nashvegas Trilogy

  Power Couple

  Breach of Contract

  Platinum

  The Moonshine Task Force Series

  Renegade

  Tank

  Havoc

  Ace

  Menace

  Cruise

  Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team

  Ransom

  Suppression

  Enigma

  Cutter

  Sullivan

  Devante

  The MVP Duet

  On the DL

  MVP

  The Midnight Cove Series

  Inflame

  Stand Alones

  My Confession

  Sketch

  Sass

  Trick

  Room 143

  2018 Laramie Briscoe Compilation

  2019 Laramie Briscoe Compilation

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  Members of Heaven Hill

  If you haven’t read the original Heaven Hill series, I do suggest you do that!

  But if it’s too time intensive for you. Here’s a quick Cliff’s Notes version, just so you know who everyone is!

  The Walker’s/Barnett’s

  Liam Walker - member of Heaven Hill MC, married to Denise, father to Tatum, adopted father to Drew and Mandy, brother to Roni, best friend to Tyler, grandfather to Justice, Harley, and Walker.

  Denise Walker - married to Liam, mother to Drew, Mandy, and Tatum, grandmother to Justice, Harley, and Walker.

  Drew Walker - member of Heaven Hill MC, married to Charity, father to twins Justice and Harley, best friend to Dalton, brother to Mandy and Tatum.

  Charity Walker - married to Drew, mother to twins Justice and Harley, attorney.

  Tatum Walker - crushes hard on Remy, daughter to Liam and Denise, sister to Drew and Mandy, aunt to Justice, Harley, and Walker, best friend to Addie.

  Mandy Barnett - married to Dalton, sister to Drew and Tatum, mother of Walker

  Dalton Barnett - Member of Heaven Hill MC, married to Mandy, father to Walker, best friend to Drew.

  Justice and Harley Walker - twins to Drew and Charity.

  Walker Barnett - son to Dalton and Mandy.

  The Blackfoot’s

  Tyler Blackfoot - member of Heaven Hill MC, married to Meredith, father to Caelin, adopted father to Addie, carries a skull mug.

  Meredith Blackfoot - married to Tyler, mother to Caelin, adopted mother to Addie, runs CRISIS.

  Addie Blackfoot - adopted daughter of Tyler and Meredith, sister to Caelin, best friend to Tatum.

  Caelin Blackfoot - son of Tyler and Meredith, brother to Addie

  The Hancock’s

  Rooster Hancock - member of Heaven Hill MC, former Sheriff’s deputy, married to Roni (Liam’s sister), father to Carter, cousin to Jagger.

  Roni Hancock - works for Walker’s Wheels, married to Rooster, brother to Liam, mother to Carter.

  Carter Hancock - son of Rooster and Roni.

  Others

  Jagger Stone - member of Heaven Hill, married to Bianca, brother to Christine, cousin to Rooster, loves to play music at Wet Wanda’s

  Bianca Stone - teacher for the Warren County school system, married to Jagger, the life of the party.

  Layne O’Conner - member of Heaven Hill, ex-military member, married to Jessica.

  Jessica O’Conner - former Hollywood Starlet turned romance writer, married to Layne.

  Travis Steele - member of Heaven Hill MC, married to Christine, is a computer expert.

  Christine Steele - married to Travis, sister to Jagger, runs a salon
in Bowling Green.

  Remington Sawyer - love interest of Tatum, brother to Cash, and prospect of Heaven Hill MC.

  Blurb

  Restraint

  noun - the action of keeping something under control

  Caelin Blackfoot

  For eight years Justice Walker has been the woman haunting my dreams. Now she's grown, and it's no longer a dream.

  It's reality.

  Prologue

  Justice

  Gazing out the window next to my bed, I look up from my laptop. I’ve been writing on her for years, and she’s having a hard time keeping charge, but I’ll keep her around for as long as I can.

  She’s seen it all.

  The aftermath of the kidnapping with Travis, the bond Caelin and I have forged from one of the worst nights of our lives, and the kisses we’ve shared since.

  Going to the folder I’ve labeled as my journal, I look for a few particular documents. When I see them, I click on each, taking a moment to read how I felt in those moments.

  The Aftermath

  Doc Jones said it would be good for me to start writing my feelings out. This is my first attempt.

  Here it goes…

  I was kidnapped and Caelin Blackfoot saved my life.

  Safety

  It’s slightly insane. In the five years since the kidnapping, I’ve started to only feel safe with one person. Caelin.

  Although I know the people in my life would move heaven and earth to save me, the only person who’s ever gone through with that is him. And because he’s put himself in danger for me…he’s my safe. No matter what situation I’m in. I look for him.

  My Birthday

  I kissed Caelin. Let me say that again.

  I.

  Kissed.

  Caelin.

  He didn’t pull away, either. He leaned into it. Gave me a glimpse of everything I’ve wanted and been missing. I can’t wait to get old enough to make my own decisions and kiss him whenever I want.

  Shaking my head, I close the lid on the laptop, then think better of it. I have more to write.

  When I open it, it won’t turn on, and my stomach drops. This thing holds every single one of my secrets for the last eight years of my life. And funnily enough the only one who can fix it is the one I’ve been writing about since I got it.

  Chapter One

  Caelin

  “C’mon, I just need you to please fix my laptop.”

  Justice Walker can plead like no one else, and she knows I’ll do anything she asks me to.

  It started with a kiss.

  No, that’s a lie. It started in the middle of a dangerous situation where my family was being threatened.

  As a seventeen-year-old kid, I hadn’t known what to do. Instead, I’d acted on instinct and killed a grown man to save the then ten-year-old standing in front of me.

  Never will I be able to forget the minutes that lead up to the decision I made. The fear on her face, the smugness on his. If I close my eyes, even now, I’m right back there. Mildew and mold, along with the musk of disuse build in the back of my nose, almost to my throat. A dungeon of equal parts dust and moisture, confusing the senses, not letting one believe where they truly are.

  In the distance there’s a drip, drip, drip. A steady cadence of water coming from above our heads. But it’s what’s right in front of me that’s scaring the fucking shit out of me. Justice on Drew’s hip, them hugging one another tightly. Travis, getting up on shaking legs, with equally shaky hands, taking aim at the two of them.

  It’s in that moment I see my life without her.

  I can’t let that happen - not when I know Justice has so much to offer the world. She always has.

  She’s the good so many strive to be like. The type of positive people like Travis, try to snuff out. But she’s not the burning end of a match, and he’s not the sole of a worn-in motorcycle boot, as much as he’d like to be.

  My finger pulling the trigger stopped him, and while I’ll always feel guilty, I’ll never apologize.

  The clearing of her throat brings me back to the here and now. She’s standing in front of me, her hands on her hips. “Well?”

  “What’d you do to it?” My sigh is accompanied by her eye roll.

  “If I knew what I’d done to it, would I be here?”

  “That fuckin’ mouth.” I point at her.

  She purses her lips. “You like it, and you know you do.”

  Grunting, I reach for the laptop. When I grab hold of it, our fingers touch, sending my thoughts back to the night off her birthday. The night we locked lips in the kiss I can’t stop thinking about.

  Four months.

  I’m still trying to figure out how to react to it. What I’m supposed to do with it. If it were anyone other than Justice, I would have already loved ‘em and left ‘em. But she’s different. In all the ways.

  Once I have her, I’ll never let her go. Since the moment I took out Travis Steele, I knew she’d be it for me. A protective instinct swooshed into my heart that day, and in the blink of an eye, I could see our lives together. Almost losing her revealed how much she meant to me, and I promised myself when the time was right, she would be mine. That’s what has kept me away from her for so long, but she’s grown now.

  A woman.

  An adult

  Ready to make her own damn decisions.

  But there are worries at the back of my mind. Insecurities I’ve never felt with anyone else. What if I’m her knight in shining armor, and that’s why she looks up at me like I hung the moon? Is it hero worship? Stockholm syndrome or whatever the fuck it’s called? Late at night when I think I might give us a shot, all this shit comes up out of nowhere, and I talk myself out of it again.

  Which is why I’m sitting here in front of my bank of monitors, holding this laptop with a fucking holographic cover on it, hot as goddamn virgin because my fingers touch hers. “What’s it doing?”

  “Umm.” She plops into the seat across from me, her knee touching mine. “It’s what it’s not doing that’s a problem. The damn thing won’t turn on and I have a ton of stuff to do for Mom.”

  “You still clerking?”

  She tilts her head to the side, disbelief on her face. “Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m doing.” She points to the bank of monitors. “You’re the only person who knows everything going on with anybody in this club. So yes, Caelin, I’m still clerking.”

  A smirk works its way across my face. When she’s annoyed, she’s a dynamite. “Did you try charging it.”

  She reaches forward to grab it. “If you’re going to act like I’m some dumb airhead, I’m going to take it to Best Buy. I know you’re not used to women who think for themselves, but yes, IT guru, I did try to charge it. It won’t keep charge, which is why it’s dead.”

  “So you do know what’s wrong with it.”

  “No, I don’t. Not why it won’t keep charge anyway.” She blows out a breath, causing the tendrils of hair on the side of her face to move.

  “Everything’s on the cloud, why don’t you go get a new one. This things gotta be eight years old by now. It’s time to upgrade.”

  “I don’t want to upgrade, Caelin. I want you to fix this one.”

  “And what I’m saying to you,” - I give her a pointed look - “brat, is that I might not be able to fix it. Once they age out, it’s hard to keep them going. The best thing to do is to go get a new one. It’ll save us both a lot of time and heartache.”

  She folds her arms across her chest in a protective gesture, causing me to try and think about what this laptop is to her.

  “I’d rather keep that one.” She raises her chin a notch.

  “Then keep it as a paperweight. That’s what it is. Take the club card and go get you a new one. I’ll set it up for you when you come back. You’ll be finishing Charity’s legal briefs in no time.”

  Her face is flushing with anger. I recognize it well. She opens her mouth and I hold up my hand.

  “Th
is thing is a piece of shit, Jus. Go get a new one, that’s the last time I’ll tell you. Best Buy will scrap the thing for recycling.”

  She bites her lip, pressing her hands against her thighs. “It’s stupid.”

  “That you want to keep a dinosaur? Yeah. Put the fucker out to pasture.”

  “It’s just…” She stops for a minute, averting her gaze from my eyes. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about her over the years, it’s that I have to let her come to me. Trying to force her to do anything is like daring a bull not to charge.

  “C’mon, tell me. What is it? You’ve always been able to tell me anything.” Reaching out, I take her hand, willing myself to not make a big deal out of it.

  She shifts around, finally letting her shoulders slump. “This was the last thing I had from the before times.”