Could I keep my baby from belonging to it? I didn’t know, but as long as I had Luka, I knew we were going to be all right.
For now, though, the only certainty I had was that Luka and I would be safe, and we could go back to the apartment and make furious, desperate passion all night long in a bed. And on the couch. On the carpet by the big window.
Inside, indoors, in comfort, and not in a car park or up against a dirty brick wall.
As we left the club, as soon as we were out of sight, he pulled me to him. “Have I told you in the past hour that I love you?”
“Mm, I’m not sure if you have.”
“Well, listen now and listen good.” He wrapped me tight in his big arms. “I love you, Alexa.”
“Luka, this is going to be hard.”
“I noticed you didn’t say anything to Carmine about your condition.”
I searched his face. A part of me couldn’t believe what I had found, what we had found together and yet I somehow couldn’t imagine what life was without him. Not anything I wanted to go back to, that was for certain.
I said, “There wouldn’t be any point telling him. These guys don’t make allowances for each other. There’s no way they’ll make any allowances for a woman.” His big hand was comforting on my shoulder and a surge of strength ran through me as I looked up into his eyes. Would it be enough, though, he and I? “No,” I said, “I’ll handle it. I’ll have to or they’ll deal with me, the way they deal with all problems.”
“They won’t get past me, Alexa.” Hearing, feeling the strength in his voice, I believed him. He kissed me tenderly and said, “You can do it. You can do anything.”
And with him, I believed that I could.
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Chapter Twenty-Two
TWO HITMEN Epilogue, continued…
My thin cellmate had given me a whispered guide to the local celebrities and the faces to watch. As we shuffled along the breakfast line among the rattle of tin cups and tin bowls, with her eyes on the floor, she tilted her shoulder or inclined her head and murmured names.
After each name she said, “Don’t go near that one,” and “Stay away from her. “She’s one you don’t want to get on the wrong side of.” All of the women Shayla pointed out were, according to her, women to avoid and be afraid of.
As we sat to huddle at the end of a long tressle she indicated a huge blonde woman inmate with a loud laugh, a circle of hunched followers and a wide grin that flashed with gold when she threw back her head and let loose her braying laugh. Any time an inmate made a distinct sound above a murmur, one of the women guard whacked a nightstick on the table right by the side of her. Not this one, though. Not Zarina.
Zarina’s braying voice startled me. “Outside people ask about you.” The hairs on the back of my neck straightened in waves as I felt her come closer. Her voice was soft. Near. “You’re something it seems.”
My whole body tingled. My fingers, resting on the cold steel sink trembled.
She shouted, “You.” I didn’t know what to do.
“Turn. Look me in the eye.” I didn’t want to. But I did. Instinct took over. Her blonde hair in huge, ornate waves, made her look like a pale Samoan supermodel squeezed into prison coveralls. The shelf of her breasts was level with my chin. She probably could have knocked me out just by shaking her shoulders.
Her eyes were hard and a gray that matched the mirror. The echo of her voice filled the room. “You.” She snarled, “You’re worth something. Or so it seems.”
I was backed against the sink with nowhere to go. Nothing in either hand. Nothing I could even reach for. A cloth, a quarter of a bar of hard soap and a cheap plastic hairbrush. I didn’t see a way that I could defend myself with any of those things.
“Somebody has a message they want you to get.”
The lump in my throat was too hard for me to swallow. I feared I might choke.
Her perfume was overpowering. “Prosecutor comes today, no?”
With my lips pressed together I nodded.
Her head craned down towards me. I was backed up and unsteady over the sink, her voice ground like rusty machinery. “You tell him go fuck himself.”
I blinked.
“You keep quiet. You got a ticket out of here.” Her eyes narrowed. “Any trouble,” her nose was against mine, “Anyone wants to fuck with you,” her grin split wide open showing the metal in her teeth, “I break them.” The word ‘break’ rolled long and hard in the tiled room. She put a hand on my shoulder and it took all my self-control to keep from collapsing.
“Now,” she said, “now you’re with me. You got two, two and a half weeks and you’re out of here.”
Her arm went around my shoulders and her massive hand clapped on my arm. “You got friends outside.” She squeezed. “And now, you got one inside, too.”
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty One
Epilogue
Thank you
BONUS STORIES
Filthy Royal Stepbrother
Filthy Royal Bastard
Memories
First time I saw him
Dinner
After Dinner
His Father, My Mother
The Beach
The Shower
Hiding in His Room
Hiding in His Room 2
New Jersey Blues
Escape
An Arrogant Billionaire
A Ride
His Story
On the Deck
The dining room table
Mile high knot club copy
Pub grub
A Helicopter to Wimbush Park
The Master Bedroom
The Lawn
Mother’s disgraceful exploits
News and offers from Alice
Mother and the doctor
Shame
Monica Chatterton in London
Monica Chatterton in London-1
Monica Chatterton in London-2
Monica Chatterton in London-3
Monica Chatterton in London-4
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Three steps from Heaven
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Preface
When my Momma married Gareth, I knew that my life ...
If I hadn’
t gone with Ant to that art gallery, the...
Ant chose a corner table in the little bar last ni...
I took a walk on my first solitary Saturday in mon...
The launch waited, bobbing by the marina quayside....
Afternoon was fading into an autumn evening as we ...
MC STORIES
Belle
INNOCENT Knights of the Lost Highway MC copy
For Gat, my rock.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
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ROID RAGE Knights of the Lost Highway MC copy
For Gat, my rock.
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
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CHOKEHOLD Knights of the Lost Highway MC copy
For Gat, my rock.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
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THE DEVIL’S HAND Knights of the Lost Highway MC copy
For Gat, my rock.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
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Amy
STRAY SISTER
The Stray Sister
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
HOSTAGE SISTER
The Hostage Sister
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
LOST DAUGHTER
The Lost Daughter
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Epilogue
Alice
RIDE FOREVER
Cara walked in the woods at early evening time. Th...
For some nights afterwards, dreams of an unfamilia...
Cara’s Emporium stood at the top of the steep hill...
None of Cara’s merchandise was cheap, but most of...
Cara’s little store was always busiest in the even...
The gypsies had come to camp one spring day on the...
Talk about the gypsies continued and gradually but...
One day Brendan asked her “Do you not have any of ...
Another day Brendan came into the store without ei...
One morning, without thinking about it or knowing ...
He took her hand and led her to the huge bike that...
They sat close, looking out over the valley. From ...
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OUTLAW BIKERS COLLEGE DORM RAMPAGE
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HARD RIDER
I was alone in the teacher’s room, straightening m...
Lu and I had a girls’ night out planned. We’d go t...
We pulled up outside and Lu parked by a long line ...
One of the girls on stage swung her hips right in ...
Out back, an old barn loomed over the lot and the ...
Mainly I discovered that there were a whole lot of...
Lu and I put on the best faces we could for Mandy’...
On my way home next evening I passed the thrift st...
The clubhouse seemed to be farther out of town tha...
The bar practically emptied into the barn, and the...
Ax had a room above the clubhouse bar. Light came ...
I passed the spliff back to Ax. “Tag owes me fifty...
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PUNISHMENT
Punishment
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Savage
SAVAGE MC
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
“You’re Angelica?” The big biker’s voice was low a...
Only three days ago, I was back in my home village...
Uncle Cesar’s little girls weren’t with us when we...
The big biker drew his thumb down over his bottom ...
Soon after they hurried us in the back of the shed...
When he slipped his fingers up between my ass chee...
Lying back on the table, I could hardly move. I ac...
I must have slept, but not for long. I heard sound...
Out at the back of the shed, in darkness again. Se...
Bogart steered me to a room out back. Inside was a...
Bogart was away for some time, and as well as the ...
Out in the bar, Bogart had me walk ahead of him an...
It didn’t take much to get Benny into the room at ...
I don’t know what Bogart did to get Inez, but he w...
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GYPSY RIDER
Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there”
I wanted him. I wanted him so bad I could taste it...
He strides into the bar and the background noise o...
I stood waiting in the corridor, rolling the remai...
Outside in the dusk, a row of about fifteen bikes,...
The pain in my arm throbbed a little, but it wasn’...
Hacker looked in my eyes. Now I realized what the ...
After a joint was lit and passed, Hacker took me u...
After Bogart left, Hacker made a couple of calls o...
Yasgar’s was a bleak skeleton of an old factory an...
My first thought was to brazen it out. I said, “Oh...
We sat together on Hacker’s unexpectedly neat bed.
Hanging naked, upside down with my thighs on Hacke...
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GOOD GIRL GONE BAD
Let me st
and Next to your fire”
I thought I was ready for all of what happened. Tu...
We were out by the edge of town, looking down over...
The clubhouse was at the front of an old garage wi...
I followed the biker through the crowd. Every man ...
After her show, the dancer came slinking over to u...
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MAFIA stories
Pierce
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Prologue
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Part II
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Part III
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Epilogue
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Luka
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
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