Total pages in book: 82
Estimated words: 77519 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77519 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Hawk loved women. He enjoyed many a variety and was not the settling down type. When a young brunette walked into his domain, he knew he should have steered clear. He couldn’t get her out of his head. She was not like any other woman.
Nikki didn’t try to flirt with him, or gain his attention. She treated him like a man, or at times, like a pain in the ass. It was refreshing. An odd kind of friendship was born.
Hawk wanted to be there for her. He wanted to turn her bad luck around.
For Nikki, she was falling for him, although she had promised to never fall for any man. One kiss led into another, and one moment she was a virgin, the next, she wasn’t. A secret affair began. There were rules. She was not allowed to go near the club. No one was to know they were together. It was their little secret.
But then the letters started. Someone was out to hurt Nikki. Was it a joke? Was it serious? Was it a mistake?
Then the truth comes out. She didn’t earn her place, Hawk manipulated everything. He was embarrassed by her. Will Hawk be able to figure out who is threatening his woman before it’s too late? Will he be able to earn back her forgiveness?
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Chapter One
Nikki Brown looked toward her friend and knew there was no point in trying to argue with her. The last place she wanted to be was at the Devil’s Beasts MC clubhouse, but her friend had this horrible fantasy.
Diana, her best friend, wanted to become an “old lady.” This was her mission. Nikki just liked hanging out with her, but constantly coming to one of the scariest bars in the county was starting to wear a little thin. Whenever they came here, Diana would wander off, trying to catch the eye of any man she wanted, while she stayed out of the way, drinking juice. She didn’t drink, nor did she smoke or do drugs.
Growing up with a mom who liked to party, and several dads in and out of her life, there was not a whole lot to look forward to. As soon as she could, she got out of her mother’s place and moved into a place of her own. It wasn’t much—a trailer park—but at least it was in a good part of the trailer park. She stayed clear of the drunks and the druggies. She just wanted to get on with her life without the plague of her mother constantly weighing her down. It was why she had no choice but to settle for packing shelves at the local supermarket. She had tried to get in with the beauty salon but her mother being known as the town whore hadn’t exactly helped her cause.
The owner of the salon, Carly Knight, had told her she didn’t want her kind running off customers. By “her kind,” she meant women like her mother—whores.
All her life, she had grown up with the dark cloud of her mother hovering over her, and it infuriated her. The women in town didn’t like her because they thought she was exactly like her mother, Bethany. She was nothing like her mother. First, she was very much a virgin. Seeing the kinds of piggish men her mother brought home to party with, most of them married, she knew she didn’t want to get involved with any man.
It was easier to just be left alone. Besides, all her spare time was spent working, saving up to rent herself a proper apartment. She liked living in her trailer park, but ever since she was a little girl, she dreamed of having her own place. Independence. Something her mother never achieved. Sure, her mom lived in a small, two-bedroom house, but she often had to pay the rent by sleeping with the landlord. One of the many reasons Nikki wanted to get the hell out of there was because her mother had asked her to start doing it to pay her way. She already gave her mom half her wage, but she spent it on drugs and men.
That was when it was time to get the hell out of Dodge.
So far, it was the best thing she ever did. Now, if she could just stop her best friend from wanting to party or getting herself thrown in jail, that would be more ideal. So far, no such luck. Between Diana, and getting robbed, she had to find a way to save what little money she had. She still had to pay rent for her trailer as well, not to mention her shitty car that had seen better days. The engine light had been blinking away for weeks, if not months, but the money she saved to deal with her car went on bailing out Diana. She loved her friend, but the next time, Diana might have to find her own way of bailing herself out.
There was a loud noise, a shout, and she tensed up, glancing over to the pool table to see two men hitting each other. No one was intervening, and then there was another punch thrown and raucous laughter as if this was an everyday occurrence. She couldn’t begin to think about what she had just seen, and it was a little too much for her.
Stepping back, she took a deep breath and felt a little sick to her stomach. Diana may love it here, but she didn’t. She needed some sanity.
The only reason she had come tonight was because Diana had begged her. The truth was, her friend only invited her to be the designated driver. She wasn’t interested in her having a good time, or if she hated it.
Nikki hated all violence. One of the many men her mother used to entertain didn’t take no for an answer. Nikki didn’t know what her mother had done to piss him off, but whatever it was had resulted in him attacking her.
Her mother ended up in the hospital, and Nikki gave a statement. Last she heard, he was thrown behind bars because he had done it to multiple women. Nikki didn’t know if her testimony had helped, but at the time, she’d been fourteen. Ever since then, she couldn’t stand violence. Refused to even watch it in movies. Violence was not the answer, not to anything, at least in her book. She felt sick just thinking about it, and wanted nothing to do with it.