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PROLOGUE
LILY
Six weeks ago . . .
My fate was sealed a long time ago. I was five years old, to be exact, when my life went from bad to worse. Way . . . way worse.
I’ve never known life to be sweet. It’s always been bitter and painful. In the last several months since coming to the Devil’s Riot clubhouse, I’ve gotten to see what it was like. Even if it my reasons for being here were under false pretenses.
See, the day I turned five years old, my parents, drug addicts and looking for money to supply them for their next score, they sold me. They sold me to a man who became my master. My owner. My tormentor.
He creeped me out from the very beginning, but I learned quickly to obey him. To do as I was told. Never go against him. If I did, I’d wish he would kill me. He never did that. Instead, he hurt me in other ways. The older I got, the more painful it became.
Then he created this drug. I don’t know the name of it, but I was his lab rat, he tested the prototype on me. It was like being in my body, wanting to scream at the top of my lungs and unable to do anything but what I was told to do. Give him pleasure. Take what he gives me. Do as he says. The drug felt like fire in my veins, and it hurt. It drove me crazy. He made me crave more of it.
I still crave it, but I fight it. I’ll keep fighting it if it means I can think for myself.
I’d been surprised when Perrin sent me on a mission. One that I never expected him to give me. He explained that I was to do what he wanted and I would be rewarded. He would give me more freedom. But the way to get that was to prove I could stay loyal to him. Get him the child that he wants. I agreed to his terms.
I went to the Devil’s Riot MC and became a clubwhore, though I didn’t do anything but give a few blow jobs. I made myself invisible by cleaning and helping in other ways. I also got close to Victoria’s son, Jamie, my supposed target.
After seeing the way the women are with their children and how they love them, I knew my measly freedom wasn’t worth it. So, I still stuck close to Jamie, but only so I could protect him. I knew when I didn’t get back to Perrin in a timely manner, he’d send someone else. Someone who will do just what he wants them to do without issue.
And he did. He sent Lorena. She’s a vindictive woman and will stop at nothing to get her way.
I came clean with Victoria when she confronted me about why I spent so much time with her son. I told her everything, and she suspected it. She also didn’t kill me as I thought she would. Instead, she wanted to help me.
Especially after . . . closing my eyes, everything replays in my mind.
Stupid, worthless cunt,” Lorena screeches and pulls the trigger again. My body jerks, and I can’t help but cry out in pain. She already shot me once in the stomach. “I knew you weren’t going to do what Perrin wanted you to do. It’s why I told him to send . . .”
Lorena doesn’t finish what she’s saying because Victoria tackles the god-awful woman and starts beating the mess out of her.
“Here,” Tracker murmurs, eyes filled with rage as he reaches for his crying son.“It’s okay, buddy.” The way Tracker smooths his son’s hair and kisses the top of his head, I know, without a doubt, I did right in protecting the little boy.
“Coyote, Aries, get Valentine inside,” Stoney orders. “Get Ranger and Tinsley to see what they can do to help her. If not, we’ll have to get her to the hospital.”
“No hospital,” I whisper, pleading weakly. I couldn’t go to a hospital. I didn’t want Perrin to be able to get to me. Not after this. I know he won’t kill me if he gets his hands on me after not proving my loyalty to him. I’ll suffer far, far worse. It would be better if these people just let me die. “Please, no . . . no hospital, he’ll . . . find me.”
“Who’ll find you?”
Cyprus’s question is the last thing I hear before my world goes black, and I welcome it wholeheartedly.
After that, I don’t know what happened. Not until I woke up still at the clubhouse, my body bandaged. They wanted me to go to the hospital but ended up calling someone they trusted to come and help. The bullet was removed, and I was fixed up.
Once the club knew I was awake, Stoney, Tracker, and a few others came in, along with Victoria, Rachel, Raven, and Harlow. They all questioned me, but they didn’t have to ask too much, I gave them what they wanted and explained that I’d been sold to Perrin. I told them that he said he’d give me some freedom, and I explained that my freedom, even the smallest amount of it, wasn’t worth a little boy being hurt.
No one was happy with what I divulged, but they didn’t kill me.
In fact, they said that once I’m healed a bit more, they’re sending me away. I’m going to another club where they’ll ensure I’m safe, and Perrin won’t be able to get to me.
I don’t think it’ll be that easy. It can’t be. Considering the life I’ve lived, I know nothing can ever work out for me. I’ll never have a happy ending.
I’m a survivor, and that’s what I’ll always be. I’ll survive and hope for the next day that I do the same. There’s no way I could simply move on.
Perrin won’t let it happen. He’ll find me. He’ll come after me. I’m his property, his personal pet. He’s not about to let his possession go.
CHAPTERONE
