Total pages in book: 43
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
David: I just think we should respect the engagement as a legitimate—
Kai: David, she told him to claim her and make her remember she's his. That's not a woman who respects her engagement. That's a thesis statement.
David: Chapter 9. The club bought Legion a new double-wide trailer with three years of pooled contributions while he was in prison. And Mercy's reaction—
Kowalski: Don't.
David: She cries and says "good things don't happen to me."
Kowalski: I SAID DON'T.
Castillo: The financial logistics interest me. Forty-seven patched members contributing over thirty-six months. That's approximately fourteen dollars per member per month for a manufactured home in that price range. Surprisingly reasonable community investment. Possibly tax-deductible if they structured it as—
Marsh: Castillo.
Castillo: I'm just saying the brotherhood operates a more effective mutual aid network than most government programs.
David: Chapter 10. The underground vault. Hidden elevator in her closet. Forty feet down. Climate-controlled archive. A red leather album of photographs of Legion spanning his entire life — toddler to adulthood. Increasingly intimate. And the final photo — a selfie of Eleanor and twenty-four-year-old Legion in a truck, both smiling, six months before she died.
Castillo: Twenty-plus years of documentation of a minor by a woman in a position of social power. Portraits described as "increasingly naked." A vault designed to conceal the collection. This is not a portfolio. This is evidence.
David: Eleanor was a respected—
Kai: Eleanor was a predator with a Leica and a trust fund, David.
Castillo: And her will explicitly excludes Legion from the family she spent two decades photographing him into. That's not a will. That's a restraining order from the grave.
Kowalski: And Savannah finds this book and looks at every page and locks it away and never confronts him. She carries it ALONE. Because she loves him more than she needs answers.
Marsh: That's avoidant attachment manifesting as—
Kowalski: That is DEVOTION, Marsh.
David: Chapter 11. Mercy shows Savannah the new trailer. And this is where we see the MC teaching Mercy. Brick brings candy. Roach teaches chess and how to check for break-ins. Ledger brings math workbooks. Diesel teaches shooting. Chains draws her pictures. Butch teaches her to punch. Ratchet shows her vehicle maintenance.
Kowalski: Dangerous men with felony records teaching a nine-year-old tactical skills alongside genuine kindness. Mercy got SUSPENDED for punching a boy who called Legion "Demon Kane" and BRICK APPROVED. I would for every single one of these men and I need each of them to get a book.
David: Well, actually—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
David: I was just—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
Kowalski: WHY does Kai keep censoring you?
David: No reason. Chapter 12.
Kai: He knows something.
David: I know NOTHING. Chapter 12. The confrontation. The ultimatum.
Kowalski: I cannot. I CANNOT. She shows up wearing Marcus's ring and Legion tells her she lost the right to ask about his family when she put on another man's diamond. And she says she's loved him since she was TWELVE. And she offers to walk away from EVERYTHING. Forty-seven thousand acres. The horses. The inheritance. ALL OF IT. And he says NO. Because he can't support them with a prison record and he won't abandon Mercy and he won't leave his twenty acres of scrubland. He would rather she be SAFE AND MISERABLE than free and his. I have seen God and God is a tattooed ex-con choosing a woman's suffering over his own happiness because he thinks he's not enough and I need MEDICAL ATTENTION—
David: It's a reasonable economic—
Kowalski: "Your cage is better than my freedom." That's what he's saying. And she's saying "I'd rather have your dust than their diamonds" and NEITHER WILL BUDGE and this is the most thing ever committed to a page. Second chance. Forbidden love. Rich girl poor boy. Impossible choice. Only her for TWELVE YEARS. I am having a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. I am SPEAKING IN TROPES. I will never read another book. Every book after this is just paper. I am RUINED. Legion Kane has ruined me for all fictional men and most real ones and I am DECEASED. Legion Kane has ruined me for all fictional men and most real ones and I am UNWELL and UNMEDICATED and I do NOT want the cure. 3-5 business days before I can function—
David: And then she tells him midnight.
Kowalski: And he goes. Because he has never. Been able. To refuse her. And they're against the silo wall and it's desperate and claiming and and then —
David: And then the flashlights.
Kowalski: …
Marsh: …
Castillo: I have notes on this.
David: Cash. Wyatt. Marcus. Ranch hands with guns.
Kowalski: They catch them. Mid— they catch them TOGETHER and rip him away from her and—
Castillo: Aggravated assault. Unlawful restraint. Conspiracy. Armed ranch hands constituting a paramilitary formation against a single unarmed individual during a consensual encounter. Minimum seven felonies. I haven't finished the scene breakdown.
Kowalski: They beat him UNCONSCIOUS. While she screams. While she fights and claws and BEGS. Someone hits him in the back of the head and the last thing he hears is her screaming his name and then DARKNESS. And it ENDS. It just ENDS. Dirt. Blood. Her voice breaking on his name. I want to every Ashby brother with their own shotguns—