{Review, Excerpt & Giveaway} Wild Like the Wind (Chaos #6) by Kristen Ashley (@KristenAshley68)

The brother known as Hound has a reputation. He’s all about cracking heads, having a good time, and when the Chaos Motorcycle Club needs someone to do the tough job, they call on him.

But Hound has a secret. He fell in love with a woman years ago. She’s untouchable. Unattainable. And even when her status changes, for Hound, it remains the same.

Keely Black had it all early and lost it all not long after. Thrown into an abyss of loss and grief, she’s faced a life of raising two sons alone and battling the rage at all that had been ripped from them.

And why.

Words spoken in anger open Hound’s and Keely’s eyes. For Hound, he sees he’s wasted his life loving the wrong woman. Keely sees she’s wasting her life not opening herself to the love of a good man.

​There was only ever one woman for Shepherd “Hound” Ironside. Even long after the tragic death of her husband, Hound kept his distance but was always there when she needed him the most.  
He did that for her two sons that he loved as his own.
He did that for his dead brother, Black.
But most of all, he did that for Keely.
 
He kept himself in check because he was Chaos. Until the night when she added fuel to his eternal flame and there was no turning back.

​Tack watched him walk around the other end of the table from where Tack was sitting in the meeting room at the Chaos Compound. He waited until Hound’s hand was on the door before he called his name. 

Hound looked back at him. 
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“You know,” he said carefully.
 
“Know what?” Hound asked. 

“You know you don’t go there.” 

Hound drew his brows together. “Brother, you call me when you got somewhere to go no one else can go. What the fuck?” 

Tack shook his head but did it with his eyes locked to Hound’s. 
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“You know you don’t go there. She’s Black’s. Dead or alive, she’s Black’s. She can move on. I hope to fuck someday she does. But she can’t move on with Chaos.”

​Keely Black once had her happy.  She had a husband who lived and breathed for her and their two beautiful sons. But Black was also Chaos to the marrow of his bones. That was eighteen years ago.
 
Hound was one who made sure that justice was served.  He was the father that her sons needed and he was always her lifeline to Chaos – and she knew that they deserved to have so much more. 
 
What they have together is against every rule but they are willing to risk it all to finally have their own brand of wild love.    

“Wild like the wind,” she whispered, and now the look on her face made Hound slide one hand farther up so he was cupping her neck and scalp from under her ear. 

“Baby?” 

“I was once that,” she told him. 

Yeah she was. 

Wild and beautiful and happy and carefree. 

“I know you were,” he replied. 
“Feels like centuries ago.” 
Where his thumb could reach, he stroked her face. “I know.”
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She looked deep into his eyes. “I get that back, right here with you.”

Wild Like the Wind is Kristen Ashley at her absolute gritty and scorching best!! She immerses readers right back into Chaos with a love story that tests the bonds between all of her legendary characters – both old and new.  
 
Hound and Keely’s journey isn’t pretty but it’s more than just a little real. They tear at your heart and heat your blood in ways that you will never forget.  And they will teach you how to grab on to your happy and never let it go…  

Exclusive Excerpt ~

Hound’s phone buzzed with a text.

He pried his eyes open, saw his alarm said it was nearly two in the morning and he grabbed his cell off the nightstand.

He had a text from Keely.

It said, Open your door, cowboy.

He stared at it a second.

Then he lost his mind.

He was out of bed, in his jeans and stalking to the door with his jeans not all the way buttoned before most men could spit.

He’d looked out the peephole and had the door unlocked and pulled open before a woman could say “boo.”

“Hey—” she started, giving him a look.

But she got no more out because he wrapped his fingers around her upper arm and yanked her inside.

He slammed the door, locked the three locks then shoved her against the wall beside the door with his hand still on her arm.

“Jesus, Hound, what—?”

He dipped his face right in hers.

“Are you fucking insane?”

“What?” she whispered, staring in his eyes.

“Are you…fucking…insane?” he repeated, slower this time.
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“Why are you asking me that?”

“Because it’s near-on two, this apartment building is on the brink of bein’ a full-blown crack house, it’s in a neighborhood that Hell’s Angels might find a smidge too scary, and your ass is not in your bed in your sweet crib in your house in your nice neighborhood. Instead, it’s at my door.”

Her face screwed up. “Why is it safe for you and not for me?”

“Because I got four guns, seven knives, six inches on you, eighty pounds and a fuckin’ thousand-pound punch.”

“You know the PSI of your punch?” she asked curiously.

“Were you asleep the five thousand times I took your boys to the gym?” he asked back irately.

“No,” she mumbled.

He let her go and straightened away, asking, “What are you doin’ here, Keely?”

“Well, uh…” she started hesitantly, eyeing him up like she wasn’t sure how to go on.

“You’re here to play with my dick,” he bit off.

“How much more mad at me would it make you if I shared that had crossed my mind?” she asked.

“Maybe five, ten hundred thousandtimes more mad, babe,” he shot back in answer.

“Hmm…” she murmured, still eyeing him.

“I thought we agreed we were done,” he reminded her.

“I was kinda hoping you were feeling flexible about that.”

Hound looked to the ceiling.

Her soft “Hound” in her low, velvet voice came at him the instant her hand lit on his bare chest.

He grabbed her wrist and she made a surprised noise as he twisted it behind her back, jerked her around, and pushed her chest first into the wall.

He put his mouth to her ear.
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“Undo your jeans,” he ordered.

About The Author ~ 

Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA. She nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorise and she hadn't taken her first breath!). 

Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana but has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write.

Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multi-generational family. They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).

Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up. 

And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better.

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