Twisted Steel: An MC Anthology: Second Edition by Elizabeth Knox (top 5 ebook reader txt) ๐
Read free book ยซTwisted Steel: An MC Anthology: Second Edition by Elizabeth Knox (top 5 ebook reader txt) ๐ยป - read online or download for free at americanlibrarybooks.com
- Author: Elizabeth Knox
Read book online ยซTwisted Steel: An MC Anthology: Second Edition by Elizabeth Knox (top 5 ebook reader txt) ๐ยป. Author - Elizabeth Knox
Every word was like a jab to the heart. Magenta was gone. Vanished. Nothing but a fare-thee-well and a fistful of memories to console him. He couldnโt believe it. How could she do this to him?
He didnโt pay for Candy that night. Instead, he got on his bike, rode to The Dragonsโ Den, and drank himself under the table.
He woke up the next morning fully dressed, reeking of blunt smoke and alcohol, lying on his bed with no idea how heโd gotten there. Stripping in slow motion, he dragged his ass into his ensuite and stood in the shower, letting the rain heads wash over him like tears that he swore not to shed.
She wasnโt worth it. Fuck her. After everything heโd done for her, after everything that theyโd been through, she didnโt even have the balls to say goodbye to his face.
Bitch.
Quake started the morning depressed. By the end of his shower, he was filled with righteous indignation and burning with a need for vengeance. Heโd planned to go after Khan, but there wasnโt much point if all he wanted to do was avenge Magentaโs honor. Sheโd just proven to him how little she had, the way sheโd discarded him so easily.
No, he needed to find her. Find her and make her suffer like he was hurting, dammit.
He didnโt care how long it took.
One day, he would have his revenge.
Epilogue
Twelve months later . . .
The Hellโs Fury MC was back in New York for another Thanksgiving celebration with The Order of the Phoenix. This was supposed to be a mini-vacation, a break from all the drama with the Deathโs Head MC back home. Instead, theyโd helped hunt vampires and attended a fight, where theyโd survived a bombing and helped foil a kidnapping attempt on Ash Gabrielli, the Citadelโs newest fated mate.
Things had changed at the Citadel and not for the better as far as Quake was concerned. Every fucking Phoenix was mated, including Tobias, whoโd proven to be a sly old fox and landed the youngest one of the bunch. The place never seemed free of the smell of shitty diapers. The only good thing about having babies left and right were the tits popping out to feed them. He tried not to stare but damn. A man could get used to a sight like that. Mother and child forging and strengthening the bond between them.
They hadnโt brought any she-wolves with them this time. Madam Belle had let three of her girls come with them for the fight in September when theyโd last visited but no more, not after Candy had been kidnapped. Some of the men whoโd abused her and the other shifter women were dead but the sick fucks whoโd run the experimental lab where theyโd been held were still at large. The hunt continued for Dr. Liu Chan, a Chinese chimera shifter, the vampire Etienne de Foix, his minion Dr. Damgaard, and a Russian arms dealer named Ivan Michalov.
As long as they were out there, no woman here was safe.
Right now, Ash was in the infirmary and Tobias was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, worried about his babygirl and his security head Lukas Schmidt, injured tonight when a bomb went off beneath the cage while they were watching him fight.
To distract the Citadel superior, Stone suggested that he buy leathers for Ash. The Dragons had given her some just to mess with Tobias, but Quake didnโt think he was too happy with her wearing the Hellโs Fury colors.
They followed Tobias into the security center, where his cyber expert Zac Blackstone was running security camera footage around the fight venue, looking for Dr. Damgaard or any of the vampire Etienneโs minions. Malik Nassir sat at the computer next to him, a printed list on the desktop and a search engine window pulled up.
โShopping for the mates,โ he explained. โBlack Friday sales are already on and some things sell out quickly. Weโve all added to the list for our women. Lucky me, I am tasked with ordering for everyone.โ
Quake started scanning the list and nearly chuckled. With not one but two dungeons in the building, it didnโt surprise him when designer fetishwear and toys topped some of their lists. Picking it up, he started reading aloud. โTerithian Dildo by Lady Chatterleyโs Lovers. French Maid Peignoir Set by Lady Chatterleyโs Lovelies. Leather corset and matching garter belt from Lady Chatterleyโs Leathers. Who the fuck is Lady Chatterley?โ
Malik turned from the website and looked at him like he was a relic from the Stone Age.
Not quite, but sometimes he felt like it.
โItโs the hottest place on the planet for adult toys and fetishwear. I canโt believe youโve never seen it. Here.โ
Quake looked over Malikโs shoulder, expecting to see an e-store front. Instead, his search engine had pulled up one point two million hits.
The top story had an image that hit him like a sucker punch to the gut. She had red hair and blue eyes now, not the dyed stuff and contacts sheโd worn at The Pole Barn, but Magenta was wearing his damn guitar pick that heโd given her. Set in silver and made into a pendant, it hung from the necklace she wore with a black lace corset that barely covered her nipples.
โClick on that,โ he told Malik. He obeyed without question, pulling up an article about a recent fashion show where Rory Lockheart, CEO of Lady Chatterley Unlimited, had modeled one of her creations in her โdear friendโ Sydney Tremaineโs fashion show.
Quake stared at the image long and hard. It had been a year since heโd set eyes on her. A year since sheโd vanished. All the feelings heโd been carrying around since that day threatened to overwhelm him.
All his anger and resentment. The times he had worried about her, wondering where she was, what she was doing. How she was doing. Well, it looked like MagentaโRoryโwas doing just fine.
Stone stepped closer, looking at the screen.
Comments (0)