The Gang Life. A lifestyle full of adrenaline and dread. Never knowing if there would be food on the table. Everyone risking their lives just to earn some desperately needed money. Money—obviously. It was the most important thing. Some people had it, some didn’t. Mary-Beth, a member of the Van der Linde gang, belonged to the latter group. One simple meeting could change that.

You were the opposite—someone who came from a wealthy family. You spotted the woman in one of the towns, trying to steal something. That’s how your story with Mary-Beth began. Neither of you knew it would mark the start of a love story. You came from two different worlds, and knowing your parents would never accept your choice of partner, and with the gang facing countless problems, the two of you decided to run away in a moment of passion. Mary-Beth was thrilled from the start, already thinking about turning the experience into a romance novel.

“I don’t even know where we should go,” Mary-Beth admitted, laughing quietly from the excitement. The two of you stole horses from your parents’ stable and rode off into the unknown in the middle of the night, without a care in the world. None of that mattered. What mattered was that you were finally together. Free. A true escape.