Page 76 of Empower

Maren was laughing with Cason’s son. Oh, my sweet Maren.

As Trevor came into the world three weeks early and without a fuss, our sweet Maren didn’t.

She didn’t want to leave the warm cocoon she was in.

I still remember the labor and delivery like it was yesterday, just like I did with Raine and Trevor.

Raine was forty-one weeks and a day when she elected to be induced.

And that induction took longer than necessary.

Twenty-three hours of labor as a matter of fact.

And seeing the pain my woman was in, I had decided right then and there that we were done. Officially done. We had four kids, and they were amazing. We didn’t need any more.

So, while my woman was resting after giving birth to Maren, I was making an appointment to have a vasectomy.

My woman had to go through all of that, it was the least I could do.

And since my woman was my woman, the best woman of all, she had her tubes tied a few months later.

“You're it for me, Vance. If something happened to you, I wouldn’t move on. And no way in hell would I ever carry another man’s baby.”

And over the past fifteen years, everything I have done has been for my family.

Before I met Lena, all I lived for was my daughter and my club.

But that small, pint-sized five-foot-one framed woman held so much inside her that I still don’t feel like I’ve reached the bottom of her heart yet.

But I’m going to keep digging until I make it there.

She is the epitome of what the word Empower means.

And I love the fuck out of her.