Riana was at one of the larger homes, a young girl in her arms, resting on the porch.
Then Cody slipped out while Barker was sleeping and went to explore. They stayed in the cabin-eating and resting and making love-for three days. The happiness there, that was worth fighting for.Īfter the last ten years, they fucking deserved it. He pressed their foreheads together, smiling into his mate’s eyes. “As long as I’m with you, that’s the important part.”īarker squeezed Cody tight, nodded. Cody deserved to be somewhere he was happy.Ĭody curled around him, human and melted for the first time in his memory. He laughed as he slid out, picking Cody up to carry him to bed. He let his pleasure and love go through the bond. After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, she begins a tortuous, soul-searching reevaluation of the road she has taken-and it is only a startling, unconventional act of empowerment that brings her back from the brink.They stayed there, Cody perched on the edge of the counter, both of them panting, shaking. Tendo sinks lower and lower, time and again an unwitting victim as she struggles to define her role as a woman in the violent, sexist, and drug-addled world she is thrust into at a far-too-tender age. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her twenties are marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men. As her family falls into debt and her father’s influence wanes, Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd, and other men begin to appear in her life. But labeled “the yakuza kid,” she soon becomes the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father’s drunken rages at home. At once heart-rending and eye-opening, this true-life memoiris a shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman’s experience of growing up in Japan’s yakuza society.īorn into the family of a wealthy crime boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury.
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