by E. C. Land
Fated for Pitch Black
Inferno’s Clutch MC Book 5
E.C. Land
Contents
Acknowledgments
Inferno’s Clutch MC
Family Connections
Fate of the Night
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
Epilogue
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Fated for Pitch Black
This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are all products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblances to persons, organizations, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
Fated for Pitch Black. Copyright © 2020 by E.C. Land. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in articles or reviews. For information, contact E.C. Land.
Cover Design by Charli Childs, Cosmic Letterz Cover Design
Editing by Kim Lubbers
Formatting by E.C. Land
Proofreading by Jackie Ziegler
Created with Vellum
To my big brothers for always being protective of me.
Acknowledgments
My Family – To my husband for always standing next to me and supporting me through out anything and everything. Sure, I annoy him, regardless he’s always there for me to lean on when I need to. Him and my children are constantly inspiring me to keep going and put up with my ramblings. Especially my husband since some things aren’t for children’s ears. To my youngest with the imagination that’s out there, if not for you I don’t know what I’d do to find my inner Bart. To my middle kid she’s my mini me through and through. No matter what she’s always got some sarcastic remark to throw and I end up using it as inspiration. To my oldest, thank you for just being you and making awesome old bay fries to munch on as I write.
My Betas – You guys rock! Thank you all for being the first to read the stories as they come alive. It means the world to me. Especially when you all start to get mad. That’s when I know I’m doing something right. And in doing so pushing me to keep going with all the different plots that form in my head. I’m thankful to you all for being ready and willing to read and give your input.
My Knox Publishing People – If it wasn’t for you all being helpful and encouraging when I need it, I don’t know what I’d do without you all. You’re all wonderful in your own right and I wouldn’t have it any other way. The biggest thing I’ve got to say I’m thankful for most, is the fact I’m able to be around those who understand the way my mind works. Each and every one of you have earned a special place in my life, one way or another.
Liz – My sister from another mister, my best friend and Publisher/Boss. You’re my go to when I need it. If not for you, I don’t know if I’d ever be where I am today with my writing. Thank you for always pushing me and encouraging me.
Diane – You’re my sanity. Without you taking everything on for me, I would not be able to focus the way I do on my writing. Thank you for everything you do. You’re not just my PA, you’re my friend and I couldn’t ask for a better friend than you. Thank you for helping me so much with translations.
Kim and Jackie – I know I’m a pain in the rear a lot of times for you guys; however, you both put up with me regardless. Thank you both for everything you do and for taking on all of my work. I love the fact I work with you both on each of them. Also, the fact when it comes to something I miss, you help me understand how to correct it, so it doesn’t happen again.
Inferno’s Clutch MC
President – Chains – Ol’ lady – Tiny (Sloane)
(Children – River & Brook)
Vice President – Tyres
SAA – Breaker – Ol’ Lady – Spitfire (Nora)
Road Captain – Brake
Enforcer – Pitch Black – Ol’ lady – Angelina
Former Prez – Ryder – Ol’ lady – Brielle
(Children – Micah, Marcus, & Lucy)
Medic – Pipe
Hacker – Fuse
Former Road Captain – Fury – Ol’ Lady – Ela
(Children – Raven and Pitch Black)
Treasurer – Axel – Ol’ Lady – Faith
(Children – Alec & Derrick)
Member – Speed
Member – Throttle
Member – Crash
Member – Pedal
Member – Spark
Member – Frame
Member – Lynch
Prospect – Shock
Prospect – Rig
Prospect – Bender
Prospect – Steel
Family Connections
To Founding Members
Garnier
Reno (deceased)– Father to Chains and Victoria
Irène (Never Married) – Mother to Tyres and Brake
(Father Louis Pelletier)
Arlene (Never Married) – Mother to Breaker
(Father Henry Pelletier)
Ryder/Owen – Adoptive father to Marcus and Micah, Father to Lucy
Corbin
Fury (married to Ela) – Father to Pitch Black and Raven
Scarlett (Married husband deceased) – Mother to Lynch and Harlow
DeVere
Rico – Father to Axel
Playlist
Crucifix – Mindfield
DJ Winn ft. Struggle Jennings & Hard Target – River
Struggle Jennings – Love Conquers All
Hard Target Ft. Wess Nyle – Devil’s Song
Jelly Roll – Nothing Left At All
Godsmack – Under Your Scars
Silent Theory – Watch Me Burn
Brabo Gator ft. Ky Rodgers – Smile Again
Struggle Jennings & Trap DeVille – Over Nothin’
Crucifix – Chernobyl
Savannah Dexter Ft. Adam Calhoun – Just Hold On
Sixx: A.M. (Ft. Brantley Gilbert, Ivan Moody, Joe Elliott & Tommy Vext) –Maybe It’s Time
Wade B – Believe In
Trigger Warning
This content is intended for mature audiences only. It contains material that may be viewed as offensive to some readers, including graphic language, dangerous and sexual situations, murder, rape, and extreme violence.
Proceed with caution. This book does entail several scenes that may very well be a trigger to some.
Also, tissues are a must with other scenes.
Not for the faint at heart.
If you don’t like violence and cannot handle certain subjects, then this is not a book you’ll want to read.
Fate of the Night
Night is coming
Light is setting
Monsters go bump in the night
Nothing can save me now
Not when there’s evil coming
Dark as night
There’s nowhere to hide
Shadows lurk everywhere
Suffocating me in the night
My heart at risk
And so is my life
Night is coming
So is my fate
Will it be to despair
Or will it br
ing me peace
Either one will show me the way
Through this fated in the night.
~ E.C. Land
Translations
French
Ma raison d'être – My reason for being
Mamma – Mom
mon beau – My handsome
Irish
bréagán – Whore
Prologue
Angelina
Age 17
“Babe, you gonna spend the weekend with me on the houseboat?” Peirce asks as he walks me to my car. School just ended and I was demanded to be at home promptly after for a family dinner event.
“I should be there sometime around nine,” I say, giving him a smile, I hope hides the turmoil coursing through me. Father told me this morning to be home and when he tells you to do something you do it or face the consequences.
Over the past two years, I’ve hidden the truth about my family from Peirce. I didn’t want him to know what type of family I was from. He knew where I lived and had even met my parents a couple times. To his face they were always polite, but the moment he was gone I was punished for having, as they called him, a heathen in their home.
This punishment usually left me sore and aching for days after, forcing me to only speak with Peirce over the phone via text message. If he heard my voice, he’d know automatically something was wrong and I didn’t want to put that on him not when I’m nearly free of it all.
On more than one occasion, I was ordered to end things with Peirce, I could not do as my parents ordered not when my heart belonged to him.
With school ending in a week, and my birthday being right after that, I intended to move onto the houseboat with Peirce. His parents gave him the title to it for his eighteenth birthday at the beginning of the school year. During the week he stayed at home with them and on weekends he was on the houseboat, normally with me sleeping next to him. It was always nice too and I couldn’t wait to do this every night.
My parents were expecting me to go to some fancy school in the fall but without telling them, I’d applied for a scholarship to the college here and was able to get a full academic one. I couldn’t wait.
“Okay, just two more weeks and you’ll be with me all the time, babe,” Peirce murmurs, pulling me around to surround me in his arms, holding me tight.
“Yeah, not much longer,” I murmur, laying my head against his chest. With him being six foot seven I barely reach his chest. “I’ll text you when I’m on the way.”
“I know you will, Lina,” he says affectionately.
Lifting my head off his chest, I glance up to him. “I love you, heart and soul.”
“Love you too, always ma raison d’être,” he murmurs with a grin pulling at his lips. He knows what him calling me that, means to me. Leaning down, Peirce presses his lips to mine.
Giving him my weight, I allow him an entrance into my mouth as he slides his tongue in to meddle with mine. Sliding my arms up and over his shoulders, I reach up on my tiptoes and kiss him knowing this might be the last one we ever share. After this evening with my father, I’m not sure what will happen but the way he said I needed to come home straight after school causes me to feel an unease.
Pulling away from Peirce, I step away from him. “I’ll see you later on,” he murmurs. opening my car door.
Nodding, I get into my car and head home, nervous about what I’m going to find when I get there.
Fifteen minutes later, I pull through the gates to the house and park in front of the garage rather than inside it, hoping to be leaving later after dinner. Looking up at the monstrous prison I’ve lived in from the day I was born a sigh escapes my lips as I open my car door and get out.
Making my way inside, I’m already ready to turn around and run for the hills; however, I wouldn’t make it to the gate before one of my father’s minions stopped me. In all honesty I’ve been lucky enough to have been able to spend my weekends away from here without them intervening.
Opening the door, I’m met by my father, mother, and two very handsome men I’d never met before. “Ah Angelina, you made it just in time. This here is Bryce and Lance Callaghan.”
“Um, hi,” I murmur, placing my keys on the table beside the door. “Nice to meet you.”
“Come on, we’ll all go in the study and talk,” my father announces with a polite smile holding his hand out gesturing for me to join him.
Inwardly cringing at what my father has to say that involves me and these two other men. As handsome as they both are neither of them compare to Peirce. Upon entering the room, my father wraps an arm around my shoulders turning me to face the men taking a seat in the chairs my mother set next to each other with a lamp separating them.
“Angelina, I have spoken with the school and as you have passed all your classes, they’ve agreed you do not need to go for the remainder of this year. As such, you will be leaving first thing in the morning with Lance and Bryce. At the end of the summer, you will be wed to Bryce Callaghan.
“What?” I whisper, surprised at this announcement. “I was going to school to be a doctor.”
“You will still be able to do so,” Bryce speaks up gently. “I’ve made arrangements for you to be enrolled this fall at the university near our home.”
My heart sinks even further and I know what my future holds now which doesn’t include Peirce.
“Angelina, don’t try to protest this, these arrangements have been made since you were three and I may have allowed you to live a little but it is time to grow up. You have obligations to this family by marrying Bryce,” my father chastises.
Unable to speak, I merely nod, I should have known my freedom would never be as easy as I thought. Little do I realize exactly what my fate holds.
Chapter One
Pitch Black
Eight Months Ago
Sighing I sit on the stool bracing my arms on the bar top with a beer clutched in between my fingers as I stare down at the beads of condensation on the outside of the bottle. Over the past few months, it seems to be one headache after another with shit happenin’ with my brothers’ ol’ ladies being in trouble. I’m more than happy to leave the drama behind for a while and not deal with any damsels in distress bullshit. Especially after getting back from visiting my sister at my mamma’s request.
Raven had been targeted, and being who she is, if the wrong person finds her, she’s fucked. I know this and so does her ol’ man, Blaze. Shit Raven had been lucky, when shit went down this time around considering she was pregnant. On top of that I’d found out about some shit the Devil’s Riot MC were dealing with, with another club called the Dragons Fire MC hurting one of the ol’ ladies along with attacking another MC’s Prez.
Clenching the bottle in one hand, I bring it to my mouth and spin around on my stool to face the room. I’d gotten in earlier today and just want to relieve the frustration building within me. The club was having its typical party tonight, my brothers drinking and having a good fuckin’ time. My best friend and Prez, Chains’ ol’ lady, was sitting at a table with some of the others. Including Faith, my brother, Axel’s ol’ lady. It was by sheer fuckin’ luck they reconnected again when we’d stopped in North Carolina on the way up to visit my sister.
Plans ended up being changed around for Axel coming up to Virginia with me and the rest of my brothers who rode with me. Instead he and Fuse hit the road to bring Faith and Axel’s son, Alec, back home, along with Faith’s friend, Lyrica. If I’d been Axel, I’d probably told her to fuck off but then again, his shit with Faith isn’t like what I went through.
Nope.
Stop.
Not going there.
I refuse to give that bitch the time of day to think about.
Scanning the room, I spot Vix, one of the new strays smiling seductively at me. I’d yet to take her for a spin, but something about her tells me she’d be one to try and get a lock on my cock and that shit ain’t about to happen. No fuckin’ way.
I live my life by a code. O
ne that means I don’t allow women near me unless it’s to suck my cock or for them to be on their hands and knees while I plow into them from behind. When I was done with them, they had to go. Most of the time I fucked them right in the open not wanting them in my space. Learned my lesson once with that shit. Once burnt, twice shy. Yeah fuck that.
I’ve got the scars to go with the first time and I’m not about to add to them. It’s one of the reasons I’m called Pitch Black, ‘cause I don’t give a fuck. If you’re not family, you’re nothing to me.
It’s why when my brothers met their ol’ ladies, I wasn’t around them much, preferring to stay in the background as I watch to make sure my brothers didn’t get burned. In the end Tiny, Nora, and Brielle grew on me. Faith I haven’t been around much but I remember her and she was a pretty cool chick for Axel.
“Oh shit, Chains.” I immediately jump into action as I hear Faith yelling for our Prez and seeing Tiny doubled over. “Tiny’s in labor.”
The room goes silent other than the music playing loudly. Chains orders the prospect to go get his truck for him as he prowls across the room to his ol’ lady. I don’t move as my Prez lifts Tiny into his arms and he carries her out of the clubhouse.