He called her his. His ol' lady. His wife. Property of Clutch. Rebecca "Bex" Pierce never belonged to anyone. She chose him. She stood beside him. She wore his patch with pride. Until the night he chose wrong. When a lie tears through the Dawnbreakers MC, loyalty turns toxic and pride turns cruel. In front of his brothers, in front of the clubhouse, Clutch does the one thing Bex never thought he would. He doesn't hit her. He doesn't cheat. He just doesn't believe her. And if he doesn't believe her? Then the patch means nothing. So she takes it off herself. Throws it at his feet. And walks away from the only life she's ever known. No protection. No club. No husband. The fallout fractures the Dawnbreakers from the inside out. Secrets unravel. Brothers fall. The club reforms. But the woman he lost? She isn't waiting to be claimed again. If Clutch wants his wife back, he won't just have to apologize. He'll have to rebuild everything he broke. Publicly. Relentlessly. Without expecting forgiveness. Because this time, she isn't property of anyone. Not even him. This story was born inside the Grovel & Betrayal Facebook group during a live "build-a-book" day. You asked for: • Public humiliation • Believed-the-wrong-person betrayal • Nuclear heartbreak • A man who has to earn her back And as I was reading your comments, one character kept echoing in my head. Clutch. You met him in Unlawful Hearts. You saw the quiet weight he carried. You heard him whisper to Remi. You watched him stand in the fire with the Dawnbreakers. This is his story. Welcome back to the Redemption Road world, this is within the same timeline as Unlawful Hearts.

On the morning of her third wedding anniversary, Charlotte Wilson learns the truth. Her husband has been betraying her for years with her best friend. The betrayal cuts deeper when she discovers her half-sister, Anna Wilson, has been helping them, eager to seize the inheritance her mother left behind. Stripped of her shares and left to die, Charlotte's final moments are filled with one bitter truth: the people she trusted most were the ones who destroyed her. But death is not the end. Charlotte wakes up five years in the past, armed with the knowledge of every betrayal and every person who smiled while stabbing her in the back. This time, she will not be the woman they ruined. She will protect what is hers, expose every lie, and make those responsible pay for everything they took from her. But there is one part of her past she never understood. Warren Solomons... The man she once trusted and admired, whose sudden absence from her life had left a wound she never quite understood. In her first life, Charlotte believed she knew the truth about Warren. He never explained himself. And somewhere between Charlotte's shattered trust and Warren's silence, the two people who had once been inseparable became strangers. What Charlotte never knew was that Warren had been secretly in love with her all along. He was decisive, calculating, sharp, and accustomed to keeping his emotions carefully guarded. But beneath that controlled exterior was the same boy who had loved her long before either of them understood what love meant. Now Charlotte has a second chance. And some second chances exist because the truth was never given its first one.