Protection (Death Knights MC Series Book 1)
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Logan
I’ve been a soldier, a biker, and now I’m working for one of the biggest organized crime families on the east coast, although their business spreads far and wide across the entire country, as I’m quickly finding out. It isn’t just California where Frankie Cabbetto has dealings, he has them everywhere. And I’m part of the ‘team’ that heads up this New Jersey branch of the ‘family’. Am I here purely because of Piper? Of course I am. Without her they wouldn’t want me here, come on, I know that. But she’s by my side, I got my girl, she’s mine now, and we’re making a life for ourselves here, as part of the Cabbetto empire. I guess we just can’t shake off that danger, and I don’t want to. I think we both get off on it, we need it in our lives. Besides, I tried normality once and that didn’t go so well. I’m more comfortable around crazy shit and bad people, it’s where I belong now. And one day I’m gonna marry my gangster girl and we’re gonna have tiny Cabbetto kids that are probably gonna grow up within this twisted world, but at least they’ll have a mom who can handle a gun and a daddy who can take a man down with one swipe of a hand. They’ll be fucking safe, I’ll make sure of that.
“We’re doing OK, Piper. Aren’t we?”
She smiles, and I feel my heart – a heart that once used to be stone cold hard as hell – beat that little bit faster.
“You ask that question every day, Logan, and every day I give you the same answer. We’re doing good.”
She takes my face in her hands and she kisses me slowly, her tongue sliding into my mouth, man, she tastes incredible. And I still can’t believe the risks we took to get here, that I almost backed away from this because I was too fucking scared to admit how much she meant to me, Jesus! Me, scared, of loving a woman again. But I’m not scared now. And that promise I made myself what feels like an eternity ago now? That promise means shit. I have one loyalty now. The Cabbetto Family. Piper Cabbetto saved me. I was damaged goods, fucked up, but she made me see I didn’t have to stay that way. She made me see that falling in love isn’t a weakness, that happiness is something that was meant for me. She made me who I am now, so no woman is ever gonna bring me down that low again, it isn’t gonna happen. I won’t fucking let it…
About the Author
Michelle Betham is an ex-media technician turned author of hot, edgy, gritty romance, usually involving rock stars, sports stars, hot businessmen, and bikers. But not usually all in the same book. Yet. She is both self-published and published through HarperImpulse, a division of HarperCollins Publishers.
Addicted to binge-watching TV shows she struggles to think of a life before Netflix or Amazon Prime, loves rock music, tattoos – of which she has many – spicy food, superheroes (she’s a slightly obsessed Avengers fan-girl who harbors a particularly unhealthy obsession with Captain America), and Keanu Reeves – a crush that’s lasted well over twenty years, and one she blames entirely on ‘Point Break’. The original. She refuses to acknowledge any remake exists.
Her dream is to ride a Harley, visit Las Vegas, and be able to eat any amount of chocolate without putting on weight.
She lives in County Durham, north-east England, with her husband and West Highland Terrier, where she can be found most days drinking tea and making up stories.
Also by Michelle Betham
Titles published through HarperImpulse (A division of HarperCollins Publishers)
Striker – The Striker Trilogy Book #1
Extra Time – The Striker Trilogy Book #2
Final Score – The Striker Trilogy Book #3
The First Christmas Without You
Shirley Valentine Goes to Vegas
Self-Published titles
No Matter What (All that Glitters… Book #1)
Illusions of Love (All that Glitters… Book #2)
Too Much Trouble In Paradise
Bon Voyage
See You At The Show (A rock star romance)
Unbreakable
Revolution – The Lone Riders M/C Series Book #1
Retribution – The Lone Riders M/C Series Book #2
Resurrection – The Lone Riders M/C Series Book #3
Allure – The Forbidden Series Book #1
Obsession – The Forbidden Series Book #2
Surrender – The Forbidden Series Book #3
Broken – Soldiers of Darkness M/C Series Book #1
Betrayed – Soldiers of Darkness M/C Series Book #2
Bound – Soldiers of Darkness M/C Book #3
Lawfully His – The Dirty Business Series #1
Willfully Hers – The Dirty Business Series #2
Breathe Into Me (A Hollywood Romance)
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