Dark Limits: Alpha Brotherhood MC

by Evelyn Glass

  “Hold up!”

  Brian dragged her back into the room by her hair, and Dawn fell to floor. She should cover her eyes and beg for mercy. But she looked up and bit down on her lip.

  “Better kill me before I break out,” Dawn started. “Or Cade breaks in.”

  He unspooled his belt and smacked the leather just beyond her legs.

  “So he’s that into you?” Brian challenged.

  “Guess you don’t know everything.”

  The door started to open, and Dawn screamed for Cade. Her unwilling body came close to the other Alpha’s chest, and she struggled until Cade appeared with his knife drawn and the healer at his back.

  “You let this trash in, Gloria?” Cade asked, as he jutted the tip of his blade into the air.

  “Always on the list,” the healer said. “Guess I should have been smarter.”

  “Sounds about right.”

  Dawn managed a sneer as she was dragged deeper into the room, and she tensed when a set of fingers curled around the base of her throat.

  “Think you should be more discerning, Cade, too” he said. “She’s a spy. She—”

  “Stop talking!”

  Charging forward, Cade wrestled the other man to the ground. His hands clenched into tight fists, and he started to rain blows on Brian’s increasingly bloodied face.

  “Cade!”

  Cowering in a corner, Dawn crawled closer to touch him when Gloria smacked her back and arched her eyebrows.

  “Maybe you are clean,” she said. “But this is dirty.”

  “Who… who is he?” Dawn asked.

  “Someone that wants to stake a claim,” Gloria said. “But we should stop it right here and now, princess.”

  The bodies tumbled back into the main room, and Dawn kept her eyes of Cade as all bottles were broken. However, Gloria kept a single shard between her. As Brian started to swat, she let the glass fall and crushed into his mouth for a quick kiss.

  “Never should have let you back in,” she started. “You ran with the Panthers when you got scared. And you’re only back to make us pay.”

  Brian, started to shake his head, and Dawn tried to crawl away from his side when the barrel of a gun made contact with her temple. She struggled for all of a second and went limp at the sound of the click of the trigger.

  “Panthers just asked me if this club was a lost cause,” Brian said, as his gun burrowed deeper into her flesh. “You let in the enemy, and there’s no taking that back.”

  Gloria curved her eyes in Cade’s direction, and the Alpha held his ground. He clenched the handle of his knife as his eyes began to water.

  “I know… I know what she is,” Cade said. “And it’s true. Can’t say that much for you.”

  “What do you think you know?” Brian asked.

  Cade wore a look to kill, and he pointed the knife to Brian’s face. He could push through Dawn and make the traitor pay. Dawn almost expected as much, and she started to make peace with the unseen powers that might be when Cade lunged closer and caught hold of Brian’s collar.

  “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Brian demanded.

  “Getting you off my girl,” Cade said. “You’re not telling me anything that I don’t know about her!”

  Cade tackled Brian and slammed his fist into his face. Dawn lowered her hands at the sight of the blood bursting from his lips, and she tried to take hold of Cade’s hand when he snarled again and seethed through his lips.

  “Then you’re playing right into our hand,” Brian said. “She’ll turn you out for the byline at the first chance.”

  Dawn stretched away from Cade. Her fingers lingered around his, but she still charged forward. Maybe she didn’t have a gun or a knife, but her rage was its own weapon, and Dawn slashed into his face.

  “Fucking bitch!”

  She barely gave him the chance to recover when she pressed him deeper into the ground and forced her knee to his chest.

  “You got that right,” Dawn hissed. “When it comes to you.”

  And she started to bat him about the head. Hate filled her heart at the thought that he assumed to know who she was and what she wanted. Leave that to Michael. And even then, she would have a very different story to tell.

  “I am not out to hurt him!”

  Still Dawn hit Brian harder, and she relished the feel of his blood pouring through her fingers when she felt her body being pulled away, and Cade gave her no choice but to look into his eyes.

  “And I believe you,” Cade said. “But you… you still need to be careful.”

  “Why is that?” Dawn asked.

  “Dawn is mine,” Cade said. “No one else ever.”

  Brian tried to touch Dawn again, and she hid behind Cade’s broad back when Gloria gasped.

  “No! Let her go!”

  “I’ll see one of these bitches down before the night it out!”

  Gloria looked as if she was ready to faint as Brian’s fingers pushed deeper into her neck, and she tried to claw his hands away from her throat when Dawn tore her body away from Cade’s grasp.

  “Dawn, don’t!” Cade screamed.

  His voice rang in her ears, but Dawn tuned it out and focused on the real enemy. Because if Brian had thrown his lot in with the Panthers, that meant that the danger was all too real. She looked into his eyes and smiled for a second before falling into his chest.

  “What’s your real deal?” Dawn asked. “Who wants to destroy him?”

  Brian turned Dawn to her back, and she sighed hard under the force of his hands when Cade found the fallen knife and brought the blade to Brian’s throat.

  “Answer her question,” Cade ordered. “I saw you. Always slinking around. Think you’re our friend?”

  Dawn watched him bring the blade close to his throbbing vein when she recovered her senses and grabbed his hand.

  “Don’t, Cade,” she said. “He’s not worth it.”

  Cade nearly met her lips when the sound of Brian’s laugher tore them apart, and together they looked down at the prostrate man.

  “I can still rock her hard!” Brian laughed out loud and smirked.

  “So what’s the plan now, Cade?” he asked. “Maybe you turn her out so we can get a taste?”

  Cade seethed as Brian kept talking.

  “This other one here… Gloria…” Brian looked to the woman with tight fists, and he licked his lips as he dragged Dawn farther away.

  “She won’t ante up,” Brian said. “Only wants to play like she’s an old lady.”

  “Here to have fun,” Gloria said. “But you boys can’t help but trip over your own feet with so many bad choices.”

  Brian laughed into Dawn’s hair, and she saw Cade looking like he wanted to kill just before the man spoke.

  “But your choice is weak. And I know that she’s been writing everything down.”

  Brian kissed her cheek, and Dawn struggled under his hands. She cringed without wanting to, the need to flee pressing down on her soul when she tried to meet Cade’s eyes.

  I want to be with you. I want to love you. Without all…

  “So how about you let me touch her,” Brian said. “Sweet thing like this is more than I can pass up”

  Brian started to press her into the ground. His hands were hard around her wrists, and Dawn still struggled when she felt his weight lifted away. She savored the nothingness and clawed at the air before narrowing her eyes to see Cade pushing her would-be attacker deeper into the night. Seemed all kinds of right. He was still looking at her. Loving her.

  “Cade?”

  “I need to love you,” he said. “Here and now”

  Cade started to kiss her lips as he turned Dawn into the stale air. She felt the small of her back smashed into the edge of a stay table. The sharp point burrowed into her flesh, but she kicked up her legs and smiled into his neck as his fingers moved up her shirt to explore her sides.

  “Again?” she teased. “Insatiable much, Cade?”

  “Now that’
s a very big word, Dawn.”

  He started to unzip, and she inched closer to his cock when he came to rest just inside her. The Alpha did not thrust as he cradled her chin in his hand.

  “Long and short?” he asked as he raised his eyebrows.

  “Be brief, Cade,” she breathlessly said. “I… I want you. I… I need…”

  “Dawn…”

  His voice trailed off as his lips came to rest against her ear, and she moaned as the warm air from his mouth drizzled around her mind.

  “I can hurt you,” he started as he kissed the short locks from her perspiring face. “You can hurt me. But no one else gets to lay hands on you. And if they try, I’ll protect you.”

  Dawn shifted upward into his embrace, and she threw her arms around his neck, kissing him quickly before easing away to a place where she could still feel his breath washing over her in sensuous waves.

  “Now that you will keep me close, Cade,” she said, “how else will we both get what we want?”

  Pushing her back into the table, her back savored the smooth surface, and Cade stroked her breasts as his cock grew larger within the waiting walls of her eager cunt. Relishing the feel of his body mingled with his lips running across her cheeks, Dawn held her hands over her head. She felt safe as his captive and had no desire to hit him now when his pace intensified. Cade’s fire filled her veins, and Dawn knew that they had to get to where the plans were being laid out. Cade should be part of that equation; she still wanted the story. But she needed this, him, first. Maybe most of all.

  “We’re… we’re stronger if we stay like this,” she said. “We—”

  “I concede the point.”

  “Do more than that,” she pleaded.

  He started to explode inside her, and Dawn pushed her fingers into his broad back. Centering her stare on his, she rocked her hips to his. In another world, in another place, she would do everything in her power to make this moment last. But now she was in search of the quick fix, and she leaned into his neck.

  “You can’t help yourself, Dawn.”

  She blushed as she abandoned the nibble and sheepishly hung her head.

  “Only with you,” she said. “You bring out the wildcat in me.”

  “Careful,” he said. “Panthers are on the other side.”

  “And I’m right here,” she insisted. “On your side.”

  “That’s what I want to hear.”

  Cade came to a finish when a crash slammed through the air. Dawn climaxed and gripped his back, holding onto him with all of her strength as Cade whipped his head over his shoulder and growled at the noises she could not make sense of.

  “What the hell?” he seethed.

  “Cade!”

  The man pulled out and zipped up. Dawn’s body was weakened in the wake of his lust, but she scrambled off the table and gripped his arms after dressing and shivering into the sounds of a million screams.

  “Who is that?” she whispered.

  “The enemy,” Cade said. “Wait here.”

  “Like hell, I will.”

  Cade started to argue when the sound of gunfire hit the house hard. A stray bullet made its way into the room, and Cade threw his body over hers as he tossed her to the ground. She could feel his heart pounding in her own ears as he turned her over and searched her body for any hint of a wound.

  “You okay?” he asked. “You hit?”

  “I… no Cade,” she said. “Everything is okay.”

  “That’s a lie,” he said. “But at least…”

  He kissed her mouth and helped her back to her feet. Brushing the sawdust from her, Cade retrieved his knife from his boot and started to charge forward.

  “I told you that I was coming with you!” she yelled. The Alpha pushed the door open, and he barely began to object when Dawn pressed her hand to her mouth. She saw the Panthers laying waste to the clubhouse as the bullets kept flying. Ducking behind Cade’s broad back, she thought the rival crew were lousy shots and made too much noise. Windows shattered. Girls screamed. And the Alphas started to draw their own pieces when the one Dawn knew as Norman took aim in Nicole’s direction.

  “And so you took this bitch back,” Norman said with a sharp smirk. “You think you’re going to make it work on her say-so?”

  The girl’s brother took a slow step forward with his gun drawn, but his finger had barely curled around the trigger when Lenny leapt into the line of fire.

  “Lenny!”

  Nicole screamed as he took the hit, and as soon as the man fell, the room erupted into a greater state of chaos. Brian was hit. Just grazed, he still slipped down on the spot. Not feeling sad at the sight. She saw the Alphas lunge as the Panthers backed away. Dawn thought she saw a stream of blood leave Norman’s arm, but his crew hauled him into the darkness as smoke hung in the air. Every Alpha looked out for blood when something seemed to click for George, and he walked into the range of a pointed gun, and the blast smacked into his side. Dawn watched him trying to walk it away as the Panthers ran off.

  And Brian lifted his gun into the air and held the club back.

  “No more casualties!” he screamed. “Fucking regroup.”

  Dawn felt Cade moving forward, but Reese took hold of his ankle and kept him in place.

  “Listen to him,” Reese ordered.

  “What the hell are you doing?” Cade demanded.

  “While you were getting your rocks off or whatever, we agreed to lie low and take some time.”

  Nicole pressed her hand to Lenny’s wound and screamed for help when Cade pushed Reese back and took hold of his collar.

  “And that fucking worked?” he said. “We got men down. How does that fly and mean anything close to respect?”

  “Cade, he—”

  “No, Dawn,” he said as he shrugged her off and pressed the tip of his blade to Reese’s throat.

  “No, Cade,” she said. “Calm down. “You don’t want to hurt—”

  “Lenny and George down. Bullet nearly nicked you. I sure as shit want to know why.”

  “Cade, just stop!”

  Nicole’s wails caused him to lower the blade, and he glared hard at Reese.

  “Your sister should have a say,” he said. “But we need to make a play. It’ll seem weak if we don’t.”

  George lurched closer, and he lowered his gun as his lips curled up into a smirk.

  “So you would have us run after them?” George challenged. “When we’re already two men down? How is that any kind of smart?”

  Hating herself for agreeing, Dawn tried to ease Cade away from the other Alpha’s side, and she touched her hand to his cheek as she lowered her voice.

  “He… he might have a point,” Dawn said.

  “You’re agreeing with him?” Cade asked.

  “I don’t want to see a bullet in you.”

  Cade’s stare softened, and he lowered the knife to his side and started to take her into his arms when a fresh spray of gunfire took out what was left of the windows. Glass fell as voices lifted into frantic screams. Why the careful aims? Like George said, two men already down. Could have been the whole crew if they’d aimed a little lower. When Cade challenged George with a sharp stare, he lowered his gun.

  “Fine,” he said. “So clean up duty or whatever. But I’m going to get the real boys back on the job.”

  And just like that, they were alone. Cade’s stayed silent, and his breath seemed to rattle in his chest as she slowly took his hand.

  “Cade, we… we should go!” she said.

  “Maybe you should,” he said as he turned her around and just touched her waist. She started to sink into his hold when she looked back into his eyes and shook her head.

  “No! You… you said that I… we need to stay close!”

  “Not now,” Cade said. “Didn’t know it was this dangerous.”

  “Cade, I can take it.”

  “And I don’t want to be putting flowers on your fucking grave before time.”

  She knew his losses an
d had no desire to add to them when the final window pane left its sill. Dawn stepped back and kept Cade in her arms when what was left of the glass rained down.

  “Dawn! Run!”

  “But I don’t want to leave you!”

  Dawn was forced to do that much in the wake of the worry in his eyes, and her focus stayed on protecting him until she lost his bike and her world went black.