Storm
What did I just overhear? So, this is what Carter has been so secretive about?! I knew when disappeared he had been through something that changed him, but I never expected this to be it. I love him like a brother. I don’t know if I can overlook this. His trauma runs deeper than I expected.
What was his uncle thinking, putting him this deep into the Damned Forsaken? The infallible Doc Fox underestimated this one. His nephew is now mentally compromised. So much so that I don’t think Carter understands he is undercover anymore. This is bad. We could all end up being killed.
Carley. Razor is gunning for her. I must protect her. If her own flesh and blood twin can’t do it, then maybe as her stepbrother, I can. Carter really screwed up on the whole protective brother th
Carley “Seriously?! Stop getting hurt! I swear this is ridiculous!” I snarl at the surrounding men. “What the hell, Lock Bear? How did this happen?” I ask while preparing to stitch him up. “It was a blackout. I was triggered,” he says nervously, scratching the back of his neck. I smack his arm down so it’s out of my way while I clean around the gash on his temple. “I think that was my fault,” Storm confesses. “I thought you quit,” I say through clenched teeth, narrowing my eyes at him. “I did. Damn it, Cactus, I can’t function with all this stress! At least smoking eases it a little,” he says, frustrated. “How was I to know that cigarettes triggered Hotel? No one told me. I would have gone further from the house.” “It’s something only our group knows,” Jase states. “It’s a weakness that we don’t need broadcasting. It’s right along with Arson not handling the smell of vomit.” Lachlan and Arson need some accountability for their P.T.S.D. They are responsible for how they handle th
Arson “Dis ol’ truck will be a real beauty once you get her completed,” Etienne says, working on the engine from the top while I work underneath. I have the 1949 B-Series Dodge truck stripped down to only the frame and engine. Tee and I are attempting to get the engine in working order now that he brought me the needed parts. We had to call reinforcements, waiting for them to arrive. I couldn’t sit around. My hands needed to be busy. Since Tee brought me the parts required, I figured it would help him focus on something besides Ransom. We can’t do anything until we find his location. “I’m jus’ ’bout finished wit’ dis? How ya doin’?” Tee asks me, looking down at me with a wrench in his hand. I grunt with the effort to get a bolt tightened enough it won’t move. “One more bolt to go, then I’m done.” “Oh good! Ryder told me to send you two for coffee.” I heard Weston say before I saw his sneakers. “Why can’t you do it?” I grunted out
Carley I'm sitting on the couch in the barn loft as the guys are loading boxes into the moving truck they rented for me. These silly men won't let me carry anything at all. They wouldn't even let me pack myself. They are the ones who placed my belonging in boxes. I don't mind all this doting because it has allowed me to finish my classwork and study."Guess we are going to put loading on hold." I hear Lachlan say."According to Jensen, Carson isn't looking so good. He lost a lot of blood. Doc Fox is on his way over there," I hear Jase say.If it's bad, Uncle Ryder is going to need some help. I pack my stuff away and shrug on my backpack. I climb down the stairs and walk toward my men."Should we go so I can help Uncle Rye, and you guys can talk to the others?" I ask them.Weston offers to take my book bag. I shrug out of it to let him have it."Let's do that. I'll let Jen know we are on our way," Jase agrees.I'm in the passenger's seat next to Jase, while Arson is in the back. Lachla
Lachlan This is a shit show of a night. We get to Tempest's temporary base to find Carson on a rolling autopsy table, hooked up to an IV filled with antibiotics and a blood bag. He is just as pale as Arson, who Jase and Weston are carrying in. I swear he has lost even more blood."What happened?! Why did I hear a gunshot before the line cut out?" I winch at Doc Fox's sharp tone."We got shot at," Carley snaps at her uncle. She is probably the only one who could get away with it other than her mother and Gator."Some internal organs were hit. Best I can tell. Possibly his spine, but you won't know until you open him up." She tells her uncle, looking at Arson. "I'll get scrubbed up to assist." She looks up at Jase. "Let's get him to the operating room," she orders, and he nods.Ryder stands there momentarily before sending a text on his phone, then follows Carley."You should shower to scrub the blood, sweat, and dirt off. You can use my room," JT offers, and I thank him.I can treat my
RansomMy head is pounding. I can't believe the little weasel blindsided me. I can't even move my hands because they are zip-tied behind my back. I want to check for a bump or a cut now.Oh, no... wait. I'm bleeding. It's running down my left eye.Okay, now for a body scan to see if I'm injured anywhere else. My head hurts, check. The neck is delicate. My shoulders are aching, but otherwise okay. Fingers aren't numb, so the wrist restraints aren't too tight. I test the zip-tie, feeling the burn of it digging into my wrists. The only way I'll get my hand out is to break it—last resort. Ribs are fine, hips are fine, and the rear end feels cold. That might be because my whole body is smooth as a newborn, and the skirt is pulled around the top of the globes of my butt cheek. I hope this guy hasn't noticed my tucked dick yet. It's okay, by the way. My knees are fine. I can feel the cold bite of handcuffs around my bare ankles. My feet are freezing, so I'm shoeless.I wonder what happened t
Jase I checked my phone for the hundredth time. Still no reply from Ransom on either of his phones or his smartwatch. It’s sinking in that he is missing. Damn it, Hound. Where are you? Please let him be okay. My burner phone digs with an unknown number.I opened the message to find a picture of Ransom strapped to a metal bed frame with zip ties. His skirt is hiked up, and his underwear is pulled to his knees. He is in the background, and in the foreground is Razor Grothman with a rictus on his face. Next comes the message, which reads, Unknown: Lookie what I found, Jasey. Your assassin is all mine now. If you want him back whole and not in pieces, you must do something for lil’ ol’ me.
Razor I was probably a tad harsh on my pet, but a lesson had to be learned, and as his master, I had to administer the punishment. He knew better than to talk to his master like that. I would enjoy breaking this particular psychopath strapped to the bed in the home of two of my favorite members. He is snarling at me right now like a rabid dog. I touch his hair, removing a piece from his eyes, only to have him snap at me, almost reaching my hand. “Aren’t you a bad dog? No manners on you, no. But I’m gonna teach you, me. I’ll teach you to be a good boy jus’ like Carter. Ma lil’ pet storm won’t anything without ma say so. He did argue wit’ me, so I had ta teach him a lesson. Remind him who his master is.” Ransom stares at me with blank, ice-blue eyes. No emotion. Pretty eyes. He Ringed pale blue eyes with a starburst of ocean blue around the pupils. I wouldn’t mind keeping one of them as a trophy. I grin. I’m g
Jase Air and Tee brought me toys to play with it. Toys that more than likely will know where my hound is. I have them both suspended from meat hooks in the middle of the future C.H.A.O.S. playground underneath Carley’s warehouse, temporarily housing Tempest. “Oh, boo! They will not be fun to skin alive. Not enough meat. Too skinny,” Jaxson said, walking around then. “That part is up to Ran when they give us the address of where he is located. I’m not as good at it as he is, Sidhe. I don’t have the patience.” “I do,” Callum rasps from the metal table he is sitting on to watch. “Ran needs his pound of flesh from these guys, too. I reserve the kill right to him. We get the information, and t
Carley I am sitting with my feet propped up doing coursework on my laptop while watching my uncle Jaxson, along with my husband Arson, teaching dance lessons. Jax and Air are teaching hip-hop to children who range from 5 to 18 today. Other days, they teach ballet, tap, jazz, and lyrical. Jaxson is doing most of the teaching until Arson can dance all day again. His legs tire quickly. I don't need to eat saltines and ginger ale constantly to avoid vomiting, but I still can't tolerate the taste or smell of cooked ground beef. All thanks to the hamburger, I vomited back up. Gross. I smile at the memory. I thought Jase was going to keel over from embarrassment since he was the one who cooked. He understood. Lachlan had just announced I was pregnant hours before. The grief-stricken look on Jase’s face is anything but joyful as he looks at me now. His hair is still wet from a shower. I look around for my other husbands, but they aren’t present. I watch as his Adam’s Apple bo
Carley It's been months since Lachlan conquered his fear of cigarette smoke by doing to his mother what she used to do to him. He and the others put their cigarettes out on her before Ransom came up with the idea to light her on fire. She burned to death on the concrete of that mansion's patio. Aftermath Crew was called in by Uncle Ryder to handle the disposal of the bodies of Francis Hartley and Julia Snipe. Lachlan is in a much better place now not having to deal with the stress of That Woman breathing down his neck. Hanging on the wall is a painting of our family. I'm holding our son and all five guys are gathered around the hospital bed staring with adoration at our tiny newest member. I wasn't very nice while in labor for fourteen hours. I cursed them all and called Jase a 'bad Daddy' for doing to this me as I pushed our son out. The doctor and nurse gave him some disgusted looks which was made worse by Ransom agreeing with me. Speaking of Ransom... “Rainy, if you wake up t
LachlanI put this off as long as possible. I don’t want to be here in this house, even my father’s ghost is unwelcome. I don’t want to deal with this woman, but I must. She gave birth to me, but that doesn’t mean I can tolerate being in her presence for long. It’s been over a month since she requested I be at her diner. She got her wish, just not as she expected.I'm in a charcoal suit with a silk yellow tie, and Carley is wearing a gorgeous yellow lace dress with an off-the-shoulder style. On the other side of Carley is Weston, who is wearing the same suit I am. Before we arrived, there was a wedding ceremony.“Breathe, Hotel. I can tell you aren’t by the lack of sound coming from you,” Jase says through the earpiece.“We got you covered,” Doc Fox says through the earpiece, holding a glass up toward us to signal the supposed man of honor has arrived at the party. Ryder is weari
Ransom"Look, boss, we didn't find Grothman's body. I've told you that daily for weeks now. The cops said he was dead, but he wasn't in that cave where Carley said he would be." Colton's words send a sense of foreboding into me as he talks with Ryder. He'll be back.
Razor"Who are we going after for this, boss?" One of my older members asks.I currently can't talk, since I had my throat stitched up. So here I sit in a hospital, a "victim" of gang violence. I wasn't about to fess to being the leader of one of the gangs. Both those killed each other according to the story I wrote and signed for the police and the federal agents.Amongst the feds, I swear I saw none other than the youngest Zen, Slater. What an exciting bit of juicy information that is. He didn't notice me, which is a small mercy.I wrote on my notepad that we would take care of all that later. I need a plan first.I'll have to be carefu
Lachlan"I'm exhausted. I'm taking Uncle Jax's fruit snacks and going to bed," Carley says with a yawn. "Take Air with you. I'll help you get him to bed," Weston suggests. Arson fell asleep in his chair due to the morphine drip Ryder had given him earlier. So I'm glad Weston is going with them. "Sounds great," Carley yawns and I gather up the giant box of fruit snacks Sidhe brought. He claimed that keeps a stash of juice boxes and fruit snacks in his car for his baby nephews. I don't doubt that, but I also know Sidhe, they are more for him than his nephews Kassius and Darius. He only sees Darius once a month when they go visit Gator's mother in Grele. "I'll walk you out. I'm going to stay and keep an eye on the other two," I inform them. "Somebody sober should," Weston says pointing his chin and Doc Fox and Gator who are drinking whiskey straight from the bottle. This going to be an interesting night with some mixing alcohol with pain meds and others getting crossfaded like the
Carley"Stop being such a big baby, J. Sit still," I hiss."That burns you brat," Jase snarls. "That's why you need this local anesthetic I'm attempting to put around the wound. You keep jerking your shoulder away from me," I growl at this infuriating man. He is being ridiculous. He is snapping, snarling, and flinching. He is awful when he is in pain. He didn't behave this badly when I bandaged his leg. I glance over to find Tee inserting a syringe of liquid into a juice box he hands over to Jax. Ryder nods to him. I briefly leave Jase to talk with my uncle. "What did Tee put in that juice box he handed to Jax?" I ask in a hushed tone as he stitches up Storm's calf. "Vicodin mixed with peanut butter whiskey in his apple juice so can't taste it. Why? Is Alpha being a big baby and getting on your ever-lovin nerves?""He is on my last nerve. Seriously! What is his problem?" I grumble. Ryder gives me a knowing gentle smile. "Baby bear, you scared him. The first thing he saw was you
Jase“What were you thinking, getting shot?” Ransom yells at me as I attempt to staunch my bleeding shoulder.I glare at him for daring to use such an indignant tone with me, acting as if I purposefully got shot to inconvenience him. “Watch it, Hound,” I snarl at him, already enraged about being shot in the first damn place. Then I look at him and see the large patch on his eye. I searched him for other wounds, but I couldn’t tell underneath the long-sleeved black shirt, bulletproof vest, and black cargo pants with combat boots on his feet if he was injured anywhere else. I touch his face with a bloody hand over the patch.“You can give a thorough inspection later, Daddy. Right now, we need to get out of here,” he says with a suggestive wink, causing my dick to tent my black jeans.
Carley When we arrive, it’s all-out war. Ravagers against Damned Forsaken with my entire family caught in the crossfire. Even Lydia and Grandad Leo, with his friends, are here. What gets my attention is the group on motorcycles pulling up beside us, with Ryder and Lachlan in Ryder’s custom vintage car. There are two teenage boys in the group as well. A gruff man with tattoos, long blonde hair, and a scruffy beard pulls Ali into a hug. “Hey, Sissy.” “Hey, Bubba,” Ali replies, pulling back so they can face Ryder. So this guy must be Grimm, her older brother. They look a lot alike, minus the hair color. “Is that our boys taking cover in the middle, Frosty?” He asks Uncle Ryder. “Unfortunately, Reaper, yes, that’s our team. Sierra and Sidhe are picking off as many as they can. But, of course, Jaxson gave away his position. Collector,” Ryder addresses another honey-blonde man with his hair in a messy top not, clean-shaven face, an