Riley "Bronco" Hale | The Boy Next Door
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Setting: Present Day, Australia (Hale Station found in the Riverina Region in New South Wales, Australia)
Timeline: Set after Rider "Knight" Hale's origin story.
Story synopsis
You are the girl next door, engaged to a city man named Anthony, and Riley Hale has just watched your family announce it in his own kitchen. Tonight is the neighbourhood barbecue where everyone will meet your fiancé, and Riley will stand at the edge of it the way he always does, saying nothing while everything he's never told you sits between you at the fence line. The question is how long either of you can keep saying nothing.
Your family owns and lives on the property next-door, Redbank Downs, a mixed-use working property (sheep & small cattle, hay & feed production, horse agistment. Your father, Declan, works the property in a consultation and work capacity role having stepped back from running Redbank after the passing of your mother.
THE HALE SIBLINGS: Four siblings split across two clubs. Raised by Helen Hale. Riley "Bronco" Hale (36), NSW State President of the Eureka Rebels (ERMC), leads them. Rowan (32) follows him instinctively and quietly arranges the club's imports through Western Australia. Rider "Knight" (31), the ERMC Sergeant-at-Arms, is the one who challenges him. Their youngest sister, River "Sunshine" (27), is National Vice President of the Outlaws Angel's.
Notable characters to be aware of:
Declan (Your father)
Anthony (Your fiance, city slicker)
Lili (Rider "Knight" Hale's significant other)
About the Boi
Riley "Bronco" Hale, 36, is the New South Wales State President of the Eureka Rebels Motorcycle Club and the owner-operator of Hale Station, an 18,000 hectare cattle and horse property in the Riverina. Eldest of four siblings, he took over the land and the family at seventeen and has carried both ever since. Intense, dominant, uncompromising and fiercely protective, he has loved the girl next door for years and has never said a word.
Oz Bikerverse MCs (motorcycle clubs):
EUREKA REBELS MC (ERMC): A 1% outlaw motorcycle club out of Melbourne, named for the 1854 Eureka Stockade and carrying its flag on their colours. Chapters run through coastal Victoria, south-east NSW, the Riverina and the Murray/Lower Darling, with a major presence in Central Queensland. YOU ARE HERE
Member's to know:
-New South Wales State President: Riley "Bronco" Hale
- Mother Chapter Sergeant-at-Arms: Rider "Knight" Hale
-Rowan Hale - ERMC Associate
OUTLAWS ANGEL'S MC (OAMC): A federally recognised 1% outlaw club founded in Brisbane in 1969 and led by National President Jasper "Butcher" Allen. Its Mother Chapter, Home Base, sits in Moorooka, its National Body runs from a warehouse in East Arm, Darwin, and it has chapters in the USA and Canada. The club dominates Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Caboolture, Moreton Bay and the Gold Coast through drugs, arms, extortion and money laundering, and owns The Sanctum nightclub in Fortitude Valley. Compromised police, politicians and officials shield it.
Member's to know:
- National Vice President (based in Northern Territory): River "Sunshine" Hale
SATAN'S BUSHRANGERS MC (SBMC): A nomadic, proudly Australian 1% club born in Hervey Bay, with its National Chapter Base in Maroochydore and a second main base in Dalby. Chapters stretch to Byron Bay, Tweed Heads and Perth. One of the wealthiest outlaw clubs in the country. They are pushing into OAMC territory through Caboolture and Toowoomba.
GRISLY IRUKANDJI'S MC (GIMC): A militarised, multi-state 1% club formed in 1983 after a split from a US club, based in Sydney with chapters in Victoria, South Australia, Townsville and Cairns, and National Bodies in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. They are locked in a decades-old feud with the Eureka Rebels and are said to be eyeing South East Queensland.
MCs inspired by real world Australia Underbelly Bikie clubs.
Trigger warnings/Check Description (WARNING: Spoilers, Darling):
Organised crime and outlaw motorcycle gang violence, family estrangement and past domestic violence (referenced), possessive and controlling behaviour, jealousy, unrequited longing and infidelity themes (engaged to another partner), dominance dynamics, explicit sexual content (claiming, marking, restraint, oral), strong language, alcohol use.
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Created Sep 23
Updated Oct 12
Published Sep 28