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Moose

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by KJ Dahlen


  “Yeah, I understand that.” Bart growled. “Assholes,” he whispered under his breath.

  Gunner turned and walked inside.

  Everyone came in behind him.

  Janice sat at a table along with Liberty, Brinn and Moose. Janice glared at her dad and her brother but she wisely didn’t say anything.

  Jackson was so happy to see his youngest daughter safe. “Lib, you scared the hell out of me,” he told her softly.

  “Sorry daddy.” Liberty shrugged. “I didn’t know if you would even notice I was gone.”

  Janice snorted.

  “Janice,” Bart barked at his daughter. “Mind your manners.”

  Janice glared at him but didn’t say anything. In fact, she turned her back on them all.

  Out of the corner of his eyes, Jackson caught the sight of his dad’s hands curling into fists. He looked over and shook his head at his father, then turned back to the table where his family sat.

  He stepped over and squatted down to be at eye level with Liberty. “I noticed baby girl. Maybe not in time to stop you from leaving but I finally got the message.”

  Liberty leaned closer and whispered, “I had to find her daddy. I had to know my sister.”

  “I know honey.” Jackson smiled. “What do you think?”

  “I like her. Can we keep her?” Liberty giggled.

  “I think we should, don’t you?” He smiled. “I’m sorry I never told you about her but I thought she died a long time ago.”

  “She told me about that,” Liberty admitted. “I can’t imagine what she went through but I’m glad she found us again.”

  Just as he was about to say something, his phone pinged, and he looked down at the text. It was from his PI. He got to his feet just as the front door of the clubhouse was thrown open.

  Cindy walked inside for the second time in a number of days.

  This may not have surprised him, but what she held in her hands did.

  “Well, well, well, what a surprise this turned out to be huh?” She snarled. “The whole damn family is here. Good at least, I don’t have to track you all down.”

  “What are you doing here Cindy?” Jackson asked her cautiously.

  “I came here to finish the job my sister couldn’t do twenty three years ago,” Cindy spat out as her eyes looked wild. The gun in her hand wavered but didn’t drop.

  “Excuse me?” Jackson growled. “What job? What sister?”

  Cindy laughed out loud. “Oh, didn’t you know? Carla was my sister. A very long time ago. I left her behind when I went to New York. I left this fucking state and the dirt on the bottom of my shoes behind too. I was after a good life and that was something I could never get here. Then I met you. You offered me a good life. And that was something I wanted badly. Then I got fucking pregnant. I hated every fucking single day of those nine months. Then the kid was born and you wouldn’t let me get a nanny. I took it for almost a year before I couldn’t stand that damned kid anymore. Then Carla called me and I made her a deal. If she took the baby, I would pay her for her troubles. She thought she was on easy street but she had the worst taste in men. They took her money and left her behind.” Cindy scoffed. “I’m surprised the girl lived this long.” She looked over at Brinn, “What happened to my sister anyway?”

  “She was beaten to death a few months ago.” Brinn acknowledged.

  Cindy shook her head. “Like I said, terrible taste in men.” She looked back at Jackson. “After the girl disappeared, I finally got my old life back. I was happy again.” She shook her head. “Then you wanted another kid. I agreed only after you agreed to a nanny. Now after all this time, you decide to throw me out? Well, that’s not going to happen mister. I worked too damn hard to get where I was to lose it all now.”

  Brinn finally surged to her feet. “Do you know the hell you put me through? Do you have any idea what your sister did to me all those years?”

  “I don’t give a fuck!” Cindy screamed as she pointed the gun at Brinn. “I never did. You were just a means to an end.”

  “What are you going to do, Mom?” Liberty asked quietly.

  “You, your sister, your dad, and granddad have to die sweetie,” Cindy told her. “Oh, and your auntie too. I can’t have anyone left to challenge my claim to the Morgan fortune.”

  “That isn’t going to happen.” Jackson shook his head. As he looked around the room he saw the men were moving in slowly and quietly to stop her.

  Cindy didn’t even notice them. She was so focused on Jackson and the girls no one else mattered to her. She looked unhinged as if she had lost her mind. “Oh husband, it will happen and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.” She laughed wildly.

  “How do you expect to get away with murder times five?” Janice asked.

  Cindy’s laughter halted and again, her expression changed. “You ask me that in the middle of a clubhouse for bikers? All I have to do is point my finger at them. Say that they shot you all. I will have a bullet injury to my arm. They will believe these bikers killed you. The law is stupid enough to believe anything you tell it. Especially if it is my word against theirs, don’t you think councilor?” She looked smugly at her sister in law. “I can cry real pretty tears. I did it when my daughter was taken off the streets and I’ll do it again, when you’re all dead.” Cindy cocked her gun.

  Boone moved in behind her and then grabbed the gun in her hand.

  Cindy screamed and fought for possession of the weapon.

  A shot rang out and the pair of them froze.

  For a moment, everyone in the room halted, then Cindy began to drop toward Boone. Boone caught her then lowered her slowly to the ground. Her blood stained his shirt and when he laid her on the floor, everyone could see blood staining her blouse.

  “Fuck a duck,” Gunner whispered.

  Everyone could see blood dribbling from the corner of Cindy’s mouth. “Damn that hurts,” she said.

  Jackson walked over to her and knelt beside her on the floor. “What the hell did I ever do to you that turned you so wrong?” he asked her.

  “You threw me out,” she told him. “I wasn’t going to give up everything for nothing.”

  “Did you ever love me? Ever love our family?” He had to know.

  “I loved your money and power. I was fond of you but the money meant more. When you threw me out, I figured I had nothing left to lose. I was wrong and you won again.” Her voice trailed off as she closed her eyes. She breathed her last breath and the silence that followed was overwhelming.

  Then they all heard Liberty begin to sob.

  Jackson looked back at the table and found Liberty clinging to Brinn.

  Gunner walked over to Jackson and whispered something to him.

  Jackson got up and went to his daughters. He didn’t say anything but instead pulled Liberty into his arms. “I’m sorry honey. So damn sorry.”

  “Me too Daddy. Maybe now she can be happy,” Liberty whispered.

  Brinn got to her feet and wrapped her arms around both of them. Then Janice joined in and finally Bart walked over and did the same.

  Minutes later, the police showed up and took Cindy’s body away. They took statements and finally the clubhouse was quiet again.

  Moose looked over at Jackson and shook his head. “I’m still claiming Brinn. She may be your kid but she’s my woman.”

  “That may not be up to her. She’s a Morgan and she needs to know what that’s all about.” Bart growled.

  “It is up to me Judge,” Brinn told him quietly. “There is no evidence I’m a Morgan and as I’m over twenty one, I don’t ever have to find out one way or the other. I have a man that doesn’t care who I am or where I came from and you know what? I don’t either. I’m old enough to go where I please and I’m happy where I am.”

  Bart started to say something when Jackson held his hand up. “Stop dad, she’s right. Maybe now is the time to restart our lives. I’m tired of the rat race of New York. Maybe it’s time to move to a gentler time
and place. Maybe Texas should be our new home base.”

  Bart snapped his head around to glare at his son. “Are you crazy boy?”

  Janice began laughing. “I think that’s a brilliant idea brother. Mind if I join you? I’m sure I can hang my shingle just about anywhere.” She looked around at the Savaged Souls. “I hear that Bounty Hunters can always use a good lawyer.”

  Gunner shook his head as he smiled.

  Jackson smiled as Liberty threw herself at him. “Do you mean it dad? We could move here and be a family?”

  Jackson smiled at his daughter. “Yeah baby girl, maybe it’s time to be a family for a change.”

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  Author of the bestselling, award winning Bratva Brothers and Satan Spawns/Sin’s Bastards MC Series...

  I live in a small town (population495) in Wisconsin. From my deck, I can see the Mississippi River on one side and the bluffs, where eagles live and nest on the other side. I live with my husband Dave and dog Buddy. My two children are grown and I have two grandchildren. I love to watch people and that has helped me with my writing. I often use people I watch as characters in my books and I always try to give my characters some of my own values and habits.

  I love to create characters and put them in a troubling situation then sit back and let them do all the work. My characters surprise even me at times. At some point in the book, they take on a life of their own and the twists and turns they create becomes the story. Of all the stories I could write, I found I like suspense/thrillers the best. I like to keep my readers guessing until the very end of the book.

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  SATAN’S SPAWN MC

  PREQUEL: GHOST FROM THE PAST

  BOOK 1: SPAWN AND SPITFIRE

  BOOK 2: REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION

  BOOK 3: BABIES AND BASTARDS

  SIN’S BASTARDS MC

  BOOK 1: SILK AND BONES

  BOOK 2: KARMA’S BITE

  BOOK 3: NO REGRETS

  BOOK 4: HELL’S FURY

  BOOK 5: LIES AND LIARS

  BOOK 6: STONE COLD

  Bane prequel

  Dec. 21st/20 Sin’s Bastards Christmas Special Edition

  March 2020 Mountain Special Edition

  HELL’S FIRE RIDERS MC BOX SET 7/5/18

  Birth Of Hell’s Prequel

  BOOK 1: PAPPY’S SHADOW

  Book 2: BETRAYED

  BOOK 3: TRIGGER THE STORM

  BOOK 4: COLD VENGEANCE

  BOOK 5: HER FATHER’S SIN

  BOOK 6: 42 DAYS

  August 22nd 2020 Book 7 SHAY

  BRATVA BLOOD BROTHERS

  Prequel- Blood Beginnings

  Book 1: Yuri

  Book 2: Mikial

  Book 3: Barshan

  Book 4: Sazon

  Book 5: Roman

  Book 6: Brothers United

  Sept. 4 /18 .. Book 7. Iosif

  Jan. 15 /19 .. Book 8 Kosta

  Feb. 3 /19 .. Book 9 Nikoli

  Mar. 16 /19 .. Book 10 Nicky

  April 27 /19 .. Book 11 Sergi

  June 22 /19 .. Book 12 Misha

  Sept. 21/19 Book 13 Timor

  Dec.11th/19 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION MAXIM

  Jan 8th/20 RETURN TO YURI Special Edition

  May 27th 2020 Book 14 Felix

  Book 15 Kirill ... Dec. 2020

  SIN’S BASTARDS MC NEXT GENERATION

  Book 1 : RAINE

  Book 2 : CHANCE

  Sept. /7 Book 3 : GAMBLER

  Sept. /25 Book 4 : BOWIE

  Dec. /20 Book 5 : JUDGE

  March /19 ..Book 6 : BYRON

  July 31/19 .. Book 7 : HOUND

  September 25th .Book 8 .. : DANTE

  .Book 9 .. : Iceman

  .Book 10 .. : The KIDS

  August 31st Special Edition: ZIPPER

  October 5th Calderone Special Edition

  Jan. 2020 Leon Special Edition

  April 8th 2020Vincinti Women Special Edition

  WHISKEY BEND MC SERIES

  July 27/18 Book 1: Lucifer’s Woman - Lucifer

  Sept 26/18 .. Book 2: Demon’s Stand – Demon ..

  Oct. 20/18 Book 3: At All Costs – Aries

  Dec. 4/18 . Book 4 : Out of the Shadows- Hades

  May 28 /19 . Book 5 : Jinx

  July 20 / 19 . Book 6 : Shadow

  Whiskey Bend MC Boxed Set

  March 2020 Book 7 Cooper

  July 2020 Book 8 Bender

  August 8th Book 9 Saint

  LOST SONS MC SERIES

  Jan 21/19 Book 1.. Creed’s Return

  Mar 30/19 Book 2 .. Jack

  Aug 24 Book 3 .. Tate

  November 9th Book 4 Harry

  March 18th 2020 Book 5 Silas

  Book 6 Daniel

  BRATVA ENFORCERS- THE NOMADS

  March 18/19 .. Book 1. ..Viktor

  May 22 /19 Book 2. .. Ivan

  Aug. 14 /19 Book 3. .. Adrik

  Oct. 30th /19 Book 4. .. Andrey

  Feb. 22nd 2020 Book 5. .. Grisha

  Book 6. .. Matvey Oct. 31st 2020

  WAR LORDS MC.

  May 12 /19 .. BOOK 1.. ACE—TRUMAN

  July 13 /19 .. BOOK 2.. KING—TREMAINE

  November 23rd BOOK 3.. JACK

  September 26th 2020 BOOK 4.. DEUCE

  BOOK 5.. JOKER Nov. 7th 2020

  April 2020 Warlord’s Boxed Set

  PRINCES OF HELL MC

  Feb. 23 /19 . Book 1. Talon

  April 20 /19 . Book 2. Rogue

  June 12 /19 Book 3. Falcon

  Jan 2020 Princes Of Hell 3 Book Boxed Set

  September 12th 2020 Condor Book #4

  THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATES MC

  June 29/19 .. Book 1.—JACKAL

  Aug 10/19—Book 2.—BEAST

  May 6th 2020 Book 3.—WOLF

  Dec. 2020 Book 4.—APOLLO

  Book 5.—

  RIVERS FOUNDATION SERIES

  Feb. 7 Book 1. Cartouche BRIAR

  June 5 Book 2. Cards of Sin CADE ..

  Book 3 AARON

  Book 4 ELLIOT

  Book 5 QUINN

  DEVIL’S TRIFECTA MC

  Gage .. Book 1 .. March 27,2019-

  Joker .. Book 2 .. May 1, 2019 -

  Sledge. Book 3 .. July 3, 2019 -

  Dec. 2020 Devil’s Trifecta Boxed Set

  SHADOW WARRIORS MC SERIES

  July 3/19 Slade Book 1. Shadow Of The Phoenix

  HELL’S BLOODHOUND MC SERIES

  Aug. 21 /19 BOOK 1. BARRON .. RED

  July 2020 BOOK 2. ..LEONID

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  VENGEANCE IS MINE- PAYBACK SERIES

  BANE Oct 20/18

  Sept.7 /19 .. Book 1 GHOSTER

  July 2020 Book 2 DAMON

  Book 3

  Book 4

  Book 5

  Book 6

  SAN FRANCISCO STEEL MC

  Sept. 18/19 ... Book 1 SLAMMER

  Sept. 28/19 Book 2 Shotgun

  Oct. 16th/19 Book 3 Grinder

  Oct. 19/19 Book 4 Mammoth

  October 26th Book 5 Booker

  November 2nd Book 6 Spider

  Carson #7 San Francisco Steel November 20th

  Texas #8 San Francisco Steel November 27th

  Dec. 7th/19 STEEL BOXED SET

  Savaged Souls MC

  October 2019 Boone Book One

  2019 Gunner Book Two

  Feb 2020 Jett Book Three

  March 16th 2020 Patriot Book Four

  April 2020 Cobra Book 5

  June 2020 Thor Book 6

  July 2020 Gypsy Book 7

  August 19th 2020 Grizzly Book 8

  Moose Book 9 November 2020

  TENNESEE BREEDS

  Dec. 14th/19 #1 Breed... Pres Of Rebel’s Blood MC

  Dec. 24th /20 #2 Greer... VP

  Jan. 15th/20
#3 Monster ... Enforcer

  Jan. 29th 2020 #4 Crow... IT

  Feb. 2020 #5 Maverick ... Lieutenant

  Feb. 29th 2020 #6 Cowboy... Medic

  March 7th #7 Blade

  April 2020 Tennessee Boxed Set

  Bikers Of The Rio Grande

  (Brothers Of Chaos)

  March 25th 2020 Rambler

  March 15th 2020 Hunter

  March 29th 2020 Sinner

  May 13th 2020 Bearcat

  May 23rd 2020 Wizard

  June 10th 2020Raven

  July 4th 2020 Taz

  July 29th Thunder

  August 2020 Brothers Of Chaos Boxed Set

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  June 6th 2020 The Quest

  July 22nd 2020 The Ride

  August 29th 2020 The Brothers

  September 19th 2020 The Game

  November 2020 The Race

  December 2020 Coming Home #6

  SOLDIERS OF HADES MC

  1.- Cottonmouth Hade’s Demons MC

  2.- Python Hade’s Demons MC

  - GTO Hell’s Fire Riders MC

  - Lightning Soldiers of Hade’s MC- (Spirit’s brother)

  -Whiskey Hell’s Fire Riders MC

  - Spirit transferred to Savaged Souls MC from the Soldiers

  STANDALONE SINGLES

  Healing Charlie ..Released

  Chasing Eve Released

  Saving Sebastian Released

  Never forget me- Released

  A Life for Luke . Released

  SINCE DEC... 2018

  K J has released these new books in this order

  So this actually consists of “the updated “ Reading Order :)

  Dec 20 .. JUDGE.. Book 5 ..Next Gen Series

  JANUARY 2019

  Jan 15 LEONID Book 8 .. Blood brothers / Nomads

  Jan 19 Nikoli Book 9 .. Blood Brothers

  Jan 21 Creed’s Return Book 1 .. The Lost Son’s Series

  FEBRUARY 2019

  Feb 7 Cartouche .. Book 1. Rivers Foundation Series

  Feb 13 Wrath prequel .New Brotherhood

  Feb 17 NEW Brotherhood

  Feb 23 Talon Book 1 ..Princes of Hell Series

  MARCH 2019

  Mar 3 Byron Book 6 .. Next Gen Series

  Mar 16 Nicky Book 10.. Blood Brothers

  Mar 18 Viktor Book 1 .. Nomads Series

  Mar 27 Gage Book 1 .. Devil’s Trifecta Series

  Mar 30 Jack Book 2 .. Lost Son’s Series

  APRIL 2019

  April 20 .. Rogue Book 2 .. Princes Of Hell Series

  April 27 .. Sergi Book 11 .. Blood Brothers

 

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