Rye
RyeThe first thing to know about me is that I"m a McAllister. To the people of Chicago, that name means "wealth," "ambition," or maybe "insane financial risk-taking." But to us McAllisters, it means "survivors."
Family legend says the Saxons tried to kill us off back in medieval Scotland but we were too hard-headed and wouldn"t surrender. If the McAllister laird hadn"t married a Norman heiress who saved his ass, our line would be extinct by now.
My father used to say that being a McAllister man means you never give up. He also claimed, during late-night whiskey sessions, that for us McAllisters a woman will either be our downfall or our savior, and you don"t know which until it"s too late.
Which brings us to the Blakewell women.
The first time I laid eyes on Lauren Blakewell, she
