She had long since stopped caring about what the citizens of Charming, California said behind her back. The moment she'd been seen exiting a SAMCRO party at eight in the morning, two years ago, she'd been branded a biker whore and there was no coming back from that in this town. Publicly dating Herman Kozik had done absolutely nothing to raise her reputation, and when The Tacoma Killer had joined them, well, there went the neighborhood, she supposed.
She'd owned and worked in a bar since she was twenty-one. She'd grown up in the same bar, and knew how to mix drinks by the time she was twelve, just from sitting under the bar watching her father. She'd lost her mother at nineteen and her father at twenty-one. Life had hardened her. Her father had turned a blind eye when John Teller's club had needed a meeting place, and she'd continued the tradition under Clay Morrow's leadership. That's how she'd met her boys.
She and Koz had bought a house together about six months into their crazy relationship. It wasn't a rich neighborhood, but it was big enough and it had a nice backyard with an in ground pool that she loved to lounge beside. They'd lived there for six months when Happy moved in. It was an odd arrangement to most, but never in her life had she she felt better than she did when she woke up curled between her men.
She'd loved many, and lost a few. She nearly lost her men and they'd nearly lost her. The life of an Old Lady and her two biker husbands wasn't an easy one and it definitely wasn't for the faint of heart, but it wasn't something Samantha took lightly either. She loved Happy and Kozik fiercely, and they gave her that same dedication right bavk.
The boys of SAMCRO weren't known for their forward thinking on much of anything, but Happy Lowman and Herman Kozik had always been a little bit different than most. None of their brothers questioned them, as long as they put their specific talents to good use for the club, and Samantha had never tried to stop either one of them from doing their jobs. They were who they were when she met them and when she fell in love with them.
Many expected the two men to become soft. Gemma Teller-Morrow had been the biggest opposer of the relationship from day one. Getting an Old Lady did tend to soften a lot of members, but if anything Kozik became more ruthless and careful, and Happy became more deadly. They had someone to come home to now, something to look forward to at the end of the day. They had someone to protect.
Samantha Rossi wasn't after a white picket fence and a happy little family with a poodle and a gaggle of kids. She liked her cars fast, her men dangerous, and her work hard. She loved her SAMCRO family, as untraditional as it was.