Chapter: chapter 15DANTEorking from home is a pain in the ass when you have a beautiful woman right down the hall that you could be fucking. It’s also impossible to focus when you keep checking your phone so you can spy on her and see what she’s doing. Maybe I should’ve gonewith Enzo today to check shipments, at least then I wouldn’t be tempted by the raven-haired beauty.Last night, she watched me as I beat off to the image of her perfect pussy. Her gaze was full of shock and curiosity. It took me forever to fall asleep, wondering what she would do if I touched her. I never expected her to spy on me, or watch me through the door, but she shocked the hell out of me. Maybe it was a game. Maybe she was trying to test me.Leaning back in my chair, I think back to this morning and how I tortured myself further. Forcing myself to stand outside the shower and watch as she washed her gorgeous body. She looked like a goddamn angel, and I hate it. Every time I look at her, I see a young woman I want to break a
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Chapter: chapter 14SERENA“Why did you get me this ring? It’s not like anyone will see it.”“I will see it,” he snaps. Then he continues in a slightly softer tone. “Besides, you won’t be locked in the bedroom forever. Just until I can be sure you won’t disobey me. How long that will take is purely up to you.”“Of course …”We eat the rest of the meal in silence. When I can’t take another bite, I place the fork next to my plate and lean back in my chair. My stomach is full, and I don’t think I could take another bite if I tried.“Dessert?”“No, I’m full.” The words have barely left my lips before Dante gets up from his chair. Grabbing me by my upper arm, he pulls me to my feet and starts guiding me out of the dining room.Immediately, I’m alarmed. Why is he so eager to get me back to the bedroom? I thought he wanted to wait until after we were married. Maybe he changed his mind?“Why are you shaking?” His words take me by surprise as we reach the stairs.“I didn’t realize I was. Why are you in such a hur
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Chapter: chapter 13SERENA“Well, you better get used to it.” Watching cautiously, he starts undoing his tie, loosening it up before unbuttoning the top two buttons of his dress shirt. “Tomorrow night, when I return to the room, you will be in this bed waiting for me. If not, I will tie you to the bed every day before I leave to ensure you’re waiting for me when I return.”I suck in a shaky breath, almost saying something like: you can’t be serious. Then, I remember who I’m talking to, a crazed monster. He is dead serious, I have no doubt.“Now be a good girl and get up,” he orders while pulling his tie over his head and throwing it onto the chaise lounge.My body moves on its own, pushing up from the floor. I’m not sure if I’m just scared or if it’s because I’m already conditioned to listen. Either way, I hate it, hate every aspect of this situation. A smile tugs on his lips at my obedience. His gaze rakes over my body, taking in my attire. “I see you found the clothes I got for you.”He points at what
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Chapter: chapter 12SERENAt takes me a while to mentally recover from the shower I took with him stood watching me. It was intense, to say the least. Dante is like a ticking time bomb. I don’t know what to expect from him. Is he going to show me compassion? Or is he going to hurt me? All Iknow is that I can’t trust anything he does or says, and yet every aspect of my life now forces me to rely on his guidance.My thoughts twist and turn, the silence within the room is all-encompassing. I feel on edge like he’s going to burst through the door any moment now, finishing what he started this morning.That thought makes me realize that I’m still naked. The only thing covering me is the towel wrapped around my body. I need to find something to wear.He didn’t seem to care that I wore his shirt last night, which has me going back into the closet a little less fearful today. I look through the shirts, running my fingers over the fabric.At the end of the rack, I discover another completely full rack, but with
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Chapter: chapter 11DANTEMy father always wanted me to take over after his death, but I wasn’t sure it was my path, not until after my mother’s death. Then everything changed.Inside, the smell of smoke and sweat permeates the air, clinging to my lungs with each breath I take. The place doesn’t open for a couple more hours, so I don’t have to worry about any patrons seeing something they shouldn’t. Naked women scurry out of my way as we walk through the dimly lit bar and stage area. Roberto’s office is just down the hall, so that’s where I’m headed.Reaching the door, I pause for half a second before I twist the knob and shove it hard, sending it flying open. What can I say, I like to make an entrance!Roberto’s beady eyes widen with shock as he scurries from behind his desk, the shock giving way to fear as recognition takes hold. It’s not often that I show up personally to collect a due, but today is his lucky day.“Dante … I … I have your money, sir.”Stepping into the room, I stare down at him. Rober
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Chapter: chapter 10DANTEAfter watching her shower and staring at her perfect body covered in soap, it was hard for me to walk away and leave her in that room without fucking her—the heavy swell of her breasts, her smooth belly, and shapely thighs. I didn’t get the best look at her pussy, but thatwas okay. Soon enough, I wouldn’t just be getting a look at it, I would be fucking it.I playback in my mind the way she trembled and reacted to me as I dried her off. She wasn’t sure if I was going to hurt her or nurture her, and that was right where I wanted her, straddling the line of fear, anticipating my next move at all times. I want her to crave my touch and want me, but I also need her to obey me, and the best way for that is fear.I would never actually harm her physically, but she doesn’t know that. Some well-placed threats should be enough to keep her in line, and if not, I have an arsenal of punishments that will teach her without actually harming her.If she behaves, I will reward her. If she dis
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Chapter: Chapter 40Mouse found the cut two days after the accident.He came into the garage with the rear brake assembly laid out on a clean tray and set it on the central workbench where the light was best and stood back in the particular way he stood back from things he had determined, as though giving the conclusion space to speak.Ghost appeared, as he did, from nowhere.I came in from the side bay.Jax came last.The four of us stood around the tray.The brake line section Mouse had isolated was perhaps eight centimetres long. The cut was in the middle of it not at a connector point, not at a place where a casual inspection would naturally look, but mid-line where the hose ran in a straight section between two fixed points. The kind of location a professional would choose: visible only if you were specifically looking, unlikely to fail immediately, calibrated to degrade under pressure over a specific number of brake applications."It's not a blade," Mouse said. "It's a rotary tool. Very small diam
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Chapter: Chapter 39I booked the flight at midnight.Not in the dramatic, decisive way of someone who has made a decision and is acting on it. In the middle-of-the-night way of someone who has been awake for three hours with their laptop open and their chest in knots, who has opened the browser and typed the search and watched the results appear with a quality of detachment, as though the hands doing the typing belonged to someone adjacent to the decision rather than someone making it.There was a flight out of the regional airport a forty-minute drive. It left at seven forty-five AM. By noon I could be in the city. By evening I could be where. My old apartment had been sublet. My office was gone. My friends had sent a series of messages in the first week after the wedding that I had not replied to, and the silence had hardened into something I wasn't sure I could easily break.By evening I could be somewhere that was not Cliff's End.I booked it.Then I sat in the cabin with the confirmation email on
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Chapter: Chapter 38The GPS.He told me about it when we got back to the garage, before I could ask, which was strategically sound and which I recognised as such and which did not make me less furious."You tracked my bike," I said."Yes.""Without telling me.""I installed it during the rebuild. It's standard on any bike I service for someone riding alone.""Standard. It's standard to GPS someone's vehicle without their knowledge.""It's standard when the person is riding alone in an area I don't know they know." His voice was level. His face was doing the thing it did when he had decided on a position and was prepared to defend it. "Yes."I set down the cloth I had been using to clean the sand off my forearm."You should have told me.""You would have argued.""Of course I would have argued. That's my right." I felt the anger properly now, the delayed shock of the descent finally moving through me fully. My hands were shaking slightly. Not from fear from the particular adrenaline of someone who has be
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Chapter: Chapter 37The coastal road south of Cliff's End runs a long, gradual descent for about a mile before it curves a wide, well-banked turn that presents no particular challenge at normal speed. I had ridden it four times since arriving. I knew the road.I left early, before the garage was properly awake.Not a long ride. Just an hour, the kind I had started taking in the mornings when the legal strategy was advancing and my brain needed air before it could be useful again. The air here was particular salt and pine and something that had no name, the specific atmospheric compound of this stretch of coast that I had started to think of as the smell of a place I had chosen rather than arrived at by accident.I dropped into the long descent doing fifty.The rear brake went at the worst possible geometry.Not suddenly nothing ever fails entirely suddenly, there is always a final gradual, the last fractional moment of partial function before the function ceases. The brake existed and then it did not,
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Chapter: Chapter 36I didn't know, at the time, what was being set in motion.That's how it works when someone operates several layers removed from the visible surface. You see the effects before you see the cause, and sometimes you never see the cause at all it gets cleaned up and covered before the investigation reaches it. I learned this later, through Sadie's team and the federal investigators who pieced it together from billing records and communications Vanessa's people hadn't been thorough enough to delete.What I knew at the time was ordinary: a week of relative quiet, the kind that follows an escalation and precedes a response. The fire had happened. Jax had chosen to hold. The Saints hadn't made another move yet, and the garage had returned to its working rhythm, slightly more watchful but substantially unchanged.I was building something.Not a bike though I was doing that too, or beginning to, a frame job on a customer's Indian that Jax had assigned me the previous week with the casual assu
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Chapter: Chapter 35I chose the evening.Not because I had been waiting for the right moment there was no right moment for this kind of conversation and I had learned by now that waiting for one was just another form of delay. I chose the evening because by evening the garage was quiet, the crew had gone, and the particular quality of the late light on the property had a way of making things feel possible that seemed less possible in full daylight.He was at the main bench. Alone, as he often was in the last hour before dark. Working on something small I couldn't see what from the doorway, just the particular bent-head concentration of fine work.I came in.He looked up."I know who you are," I said. "Marge told me."He was very still for a moment.I watched the assessment happen in him the quick internal accounting of this information and what it meant. Not anger, I noticed. Something more complex than anger."How much?" he asked."Your name. Cole. That you walked away from the estate." I paused. "Th
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