by Ambere Sabo
Table of Contents
Lilly
Copyright
Synopsis
Dedication
Also by Ambere
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Epilogue
A Note from the Author
Sneak Peek
Lilly
A Silent Sons MC Novel
Book Three
Ambere Sabo
Copyright
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Lilly A Silent Sons MC Novel Book three
Copyright 2018 © Ambere Sabo
Published by: Ambere Sabo
Edited by: Charlotte Stanley
Cover by Tracie Douglas with Dark Water Covers
Format by: Ambere Sabo
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental
Synopsis
I had plans for my life.
Graduate from UT- Austin's nursing program...
Work at Dells Children's Hospital...
Get married and have a family...
Stay the hell away from club life...
Simple plans, right?
That's what I thought anyway. Until my father had to go and ruin it all in one damn day. My only solace with all the crazy of club life, cartels, and psychos, is that I found Gunner...
A man who could make the crazy that has become my life worth it. If only he didn't see me as off limits. Can I make him see me as more than Havoc's kid sister before the psycho comes to claim me? Or am I doomed to be an unwilling replacement for a woman I know nothing about?
Warning
This novel includes graphic situations with detailed violence, sex, and language. It may be offensive to some readers and includes situations that may be triggers for certain individuals. This book is intended for a mature audience.
Dedication
In life, there are times that test us.
Times that make us forget who we are, and what we're capable of.
If your lucky enough to find people that can drag you out of these times
and make you remember who you are, never lose them.
They are worth more than gold.
Michelle and Jennifer, you are this for me.
I can’t begin to explain how much your friendship means to me.
Love you always.
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Enterrador
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Prologue
Lilly
I’ve had the year from absolute hell. From my fucked-up father trying to sell me to a psychopath. To finding out that dear old dad was trafficking girls—some of them my very own sisters. To listening as two of my best friends actually took his life. Honestly, I didn’t think it could get much worse. Famous last words, right? And I could’ve never been more wrong.
That psychopath I mentioned, well he thinks I’m his to do with as he pleases. Apparently, I remind him of his dead wife, and he’ll stop at nothing until he has me. What kind of sick twisted shit is that? Honestly, I’m scared to death.
I was the sheltered one growing up. Cessy and Havoc made sure of that. Any time I spent at The Reapers was done with one of them by my side. I didn’t see the club they way they did. I didn’t see the bad. Knowing what I do now, I’m thankful for it, but back then?
Well back then, sometimes I hated them for it. I thought my brother wanted all of our father’s time and attention. That he didn’t want me in the way, so he’d have Cess babysit me. I didn’t understand Havoc was protecting me, as best as any big brother could anyway.
After Havoc left and joined the Sons, I saw how much my father didn’t care for me. How much me being around seemed to irritate him. But he was still my father, and I was a little girl who just wanted him to love me. I tried everything to get him to look at me with pride like he used to look at Havoc, but no matter what I did it never happened.
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown,” he used to tell me. Some bullshit excuse as to why he couldn’t be bothered to spend time with me. Hell, even get to know me. He had a kingdom to rule, and I just didn’t understand. In reality, I was a girl, and that meant I had no real worth in his eyes. Unless you counted the price tag he put on me.
In all of the craziness from the past year, not everything’s been bad. I found my solace, my peace. Gunner. He was the one to catch me when I fell apart after we escaped from my father and the cartel. And he’s made sure I’ve been safe through it all. He’s become someone I can lean on. The sexy ex-marine has my heart, and I don’t think he even knows it. To him, I’m just his brother's kid sister and completely off limits.
Fuck that! I’m tired of being the little girl who needs to be sheltered, to be taken care of. I know how to protect myself. Havoc made sure of that years ago. I’m finishing nursing school in a few months, and then I’ll show Gunner just what I am—his. And I'll be damned if I let anyone stand in my way.
Chapter 1
Gunner
That letter. God that fucking letter. It’s been months since it arrived at the Dominion clubhouse, and it still feels like a bad fucking joke. I grimace as I remember how Havoc flipped his shit when I finished reading it—as in literally started tossing things around church.
Chaos is the only way to explain what happened after we found out Enterrador was still alive and kicking. Panic from the Ol’ Ladies for a girl they look at as a sister. Demands for answers from the brothers of both clubs. Me, utterly frozen with my mind working a million miles a minute. We’d thought the bastard was dead, and Lilly would be safe. How could we get it so fucking wrong?
Now, we walk on eggshells around the subject. Enterrador won’t stop until he has her, or so he says. But she isn’t his to take. For now, it seems he’s content sending her flowers and gifts in some fucked up way of courting her. But eventually he will come for her, and none of us have any clue how to stop it.
We protect what’s ours because it’s the only thing we can do. Lilly has around the clock protection, me, but I know the whole thing still wears on her. She’s stronger than her brother gi
ves her credit for though, but I can tell she's still afraid.
She’s tried to change her looks. Hoping if she doesn’t remind him of his wife anymore, he’ll just leave her alone. Her ma was pissed when she came home with the vibrant, red hair she’s rocking now. Havoc threatened to kill Ink if he gave her a tattoo when she started asking Cess about hers. Not that she couldn’t go somewhere else.
Today, on a day that calls for celebration, she watches everyone around her, cautiously. Worried that at any moment a new gift will arrive. Terrified that perhaps today’s the day he’ll decide to stop playing games and make his move.
“Lil, there are enough brothers in this auditorium to keep you safe. We went over all this last week in church. Nothing’s going to happen to you. Please try to enjoy your graduation. It's your day, baby girl. You deserve it. We’ve got you,” I whisper in her ear as I come up behind her and rub her arms. Trying anything to get her to calm down.
She melts against me when I do, and it sets me on fire. The feel of her body next to mine makes me feel alive. No matter how damn hard I try, it won’t go away. I want a woman I have no right even thinking about. I take a moment more than I should to just breathe her in.
“You need to get in line to go to your seat,” I say, pointing to her classmates starting to line up.
Sighing, she tells me, “I know. Ma will kill me if she doesn’t get to see me walk across that stage.”
I can’t help the laugh that slips through my lips. “And she’ll kill me for making you miss it. Now go. You know your ma pissed off scares the shit out of me.”
There’s my girl. The smile I’ve grown to crave lights up her face. She finds it hilarious that I’m scared of her itty-bitty mother. But that woman is scary as shit when she’s in a mood. I don’t know how Havoc made it to adulthood. I truly don’t.
After making sure Lil is safe and sound in her seat, I make my way to mine with Havoc and Angel. All of the Sons and a few of The Reapers are littered throughout the auditorium, but those of us who are important to Lil are all together. Rose is sitting with Vic and Prez, while Venom sits with Cessy.
When it comes time for Lil to walk across the stage, cheers erupt from almost every section. She looks amazing beaming back at us as she walks across to get her diploma. She’s worked her ass off, and I’m damn proud of her for it. We all are.
I know she’s upset she can’t stay here in Austin and work with the kids. I'll admit I’m a selfish prick, so nothing makes me happier than knowing she’ll be close. Then I can always keep an eye on her. Prez has been getting pretty pissed about me not letting the other members handle any of her security detail these last few months. I can’t be much of a Road Captain if I’m always out of town. But damn it to hell, if I want any of the other brothers to be the ones making sure she’s good. Safe.
If I couldn’t be here, I’d send Dash or Colt. Colt is young as fuck, and it shows. He can take care of his own, or I wouldn’t send him. But I know she finds him annoying as hell. Kind of like the kid brother you never wanted. And Dash, well Dash is so far gone on Kat, it's ridiculous. If only he’d man up and make a fucking move already. Basically, neither has a chance in hell with my baby girl.
I have to remind myself I don’t either. Lilly deserves the best. And an ex-marine biker is nowhere near that. Besides, Havoc would have my fucking head. He’s already threatened me with bodily harm if I so much as think about touching his baby sister. Thank fuck, he isn’t in my head.
Chapter 2
Lilly
Inside Blue Bells it looks like a party store threw up every graduation decoration known to man on every possible surface. There are at least three different banners draped on the walls. Then there are these multi-colored centerpieces that say congrats grad. But what has me in a damn near fit of giggles is the balloons. The ceiling is wall to wall balloons.
“I was in charge of decorations,” Dash informs me the second he can. With a grin, I shake my head. I should’ve known.
Rodeo and Wraith take turns manning the BBQ, and Cessy’s behind the bar. Watching her waddle back and forth to make drinks isn’t nearly as entertaining as how Venom fawns over her. He hates that she won't let one of the other girls take over and man the bar.
“Come on, baby. Let Kat do the drinks, please. You need to be restin’. Not getting these fuckers their drinks,” he pleads.
“Now you listen to me, Ethan Walters.” Oh shit. She used his given name. That’s never good for Venom. Cess is the only one who can get away with calling him anything other than Venom, so when the brothers around him start to chuckle he fixes each of them with a glare. He may be a big ol’ softy when it comes to his woman, but he’ll still kick their asses any day.
“I’ve already told you I can’t sit down. Your tall as hell son ends up punching me in the pelvic bone and playing soccer with my ribs. I need to be stretched out.”
“Baby,” he starts before she reaches up to silence him with her finger.
“I promise when I get tired, I’ll let Kat take over. Okay?”
“Promise?” he asks. She gives him a nod followed by a kiss that could make a saint hot and bothered.
The brothers don’t let their big bad enforcer get off so easily. Sounds of a whip cracking can be heard from those few close enough to watch the display. Cessy silences all of them with an evil eye.
Cessy takes no shit as it is. Add in her being eight months pregnant, and the brothers know better than to fuck with her. If she doesn’t kick their asses, they’ll be lucky if Rodeo does it before Venom. She's carrying the first future generation of the sons after all. That little boy is going to be spoiled as shit. As his godmother, it'll be my job to make damn sure he is.
No matter how hard I try, even being surrounded by all those I hold near and dear, I can’t keep the worry from my mind.
Don’t let him take this from you…
The words have been on repeat in my head ever since I found the box in my seat. I still don’t have the courage to open it. I just can’t. Every gift that’s come has gotten increasingly more extravagant. And I know a ring box when I see one. I just want one day of normal. One day to celebrate finishing nursing school.
If I’d given the Sons the package, no one would be enjoying themselves right now. My graduation party would’ve been ruined. It would’ve been interrupted with church and everyone giving whatever ideas of what they think the gift might mean.
It gets us nowhere.
Why did he send the amethyst and opal tennis bracelet in February for my birthday?
How did he even know it was my birthday?
Why the blinged out Dia de Los Muertos skull at Mardi Gras?
Does he know how much I love New Orleans?
What about the Faberge egg for Easter?
There's no figuring out the crazy that’s become my life. I wish everyone would get that already.
I’ll deal with the box when I'm in the privacy of my own room at Ma’s. For now, I will not let him take this from me.
On that note, I lean on the bar and ask, “Cess, can I get a Malibu and pineapple please?”
“Sure thing, baby girl,” she answers with a smirk.
“Not you too, Cess,” Havoc groans as he comes up behind me with Angel tucked to his side.
“Well, she is the baby,” Angel chides.
Cessy must have seen him coming. She and Angel have taken to making sure they call me baby girl whenever he’s around. He can’t stand the nickname Gunner has given me. I think it’s more about the person who gave it than the name itself. He went after Gunner the first time he heard him use it. Dash and Rev had to physically hold him back. My brother threatened to personally take Gunner's life if he ever even thought about laying a hand on me. Way to cement the fact that I’m off limits, big brother.
“No, Maribel is actually the baby,” he grumbles.
My eyes are drawn to my new little sister as she sits with some of the brothers eating. Maribel is one of the girls who was rescued fr
om the cells. When she told us her family put her there, Ma decided to take her in. The first few months were hard, she pretended not to speak English and pretty much kept to herself. The only person she talked to back then was Venom.
Now? She’s finally starting to come out of her shell a bit. She’s smart as hell and speaks both English and Spanish fluently. Which is good since we thought she was thirteen when we put her in school, and she’s actually only eleven. What can I say, she's tall as hell. My heart melts a bit when she smiles and laughs at something Jekyl is doing.
My life may be a hot fucking mess but aside from Maribel, we got Rose back too. Wrecker had no luck when it came to having boys with Havoc being the only one. But daughters he got in spades. I know I’ll never have the chance to meet most of my sisters as they died after he sold them to the cartel, but getting to know my big sister has been amazing.
With everything she’s been through, even now she as she waits for the Sons and the taskforce to find her children, she still smiles. She told me God wouldn’t make her live without them after she’s already been through so much. I don’t know about God, but Havoc and G are doing everything they can to find my nephews and niece.
The baby she was carrying when Havoc found her didn’t make it. She miscarried at five months. Doc said the stress of it all put too much strain on her body. Even after that, she still has her faith. I'll admit mine waivers daily, but I know, somehow, all of us will make it out on the other side of all this cartel shit. We just have to.
Looking around Blue Bells my heart is truly full. I can’t remember the last time we all got together just to be. No club politics, no cartels, no psychopaths. Just the love of family and friends. The next few hours pass in a blur and I couldn’t have planned a better night if I tried.
Chapter 3
