Storm MC Collection Books 1 - 4 (Motorcycle Club Romance)

by Nina Levine

  He walked out of the room, and I sat back at my desk. Surveying my office, I thought back to when we started doing this work. The day Merrick and I took matters into our own hands was burned into my memory. Ashley had been the catalyst of that, had shown me the truth of the lie I’d been living up until that point. It had been a bloody battle that day; a battle I hadn’t hesitated to take charge of and do whatever was necessary to ensure victory. Justice had been served to the one who had wronged so many. The fact Ashley wasn’t here to witness the results of everything we’d put in motion that day broke my fucking heart. But it just reminded me life had a way of taking the good and fucking with it when you least expected it. All you could do was savour what you had, while you had it, and hope like hell you kept it for a long time.

  My childhood memories weren’t happy ones. As I watched my mother lie to me the next morning, I recalled similar situations from when I was younger. I’d lost count of the number of times I begged her to stop seeing my father, and I’d lost count of the number of lies she’d told me when she agreed she would tell him to go. I knew she didn’t lie to me intentionally. She lied to herself as well. There were a few times she did follow through and kick him out, but within a couple of months, he was always back.

  Theirs was such a dysfunctional love. I could never work out why they clung to each other like they did. The moments where I glimpsed tenderness between them gave me hope, but it was always short-lived, until the day when I was a teen and I decided enough was enough. I decided there had to be more to love than false hope and bullshit promises. If the person you loved couldn’t be there for you always, they weren’t worthy of your time or your affection.

  It had been over a year since Marcus stopped seeing my mother. She’d grieved the loss of him, and I hoped she’d grown stronger through that experience; strong enough to say no to him the day he showed up again, back at her door. He’d stayed away longer than I thought he would, but I was sure he was back now. However, mum was denying it.

  “Why aren’t you telling me the truth?” I demanded, a lifetime of anger flaring up.

  “I am telling you the truth! Yes, he came around, but no, I won’t take him back,” she pleaded with me to believe her. She’d cried wolf one too many times, though.

  “What promises did he make you this time?”

  She didn’t answer me. She just began folding the laundry sitting on the kitchen table in front of her. A dead fucking giveaway she was avoiding the truth.

  I slammed my hand down on the table so hard it moved. She jumped, and the fear I saw in her eyes hurt like hell. I would never fucking hurt her but Marcus had, over and over, to the point where any little threat scared the fuck out of her. “Fuck!” I roared, “I fucking hate what he has done to us.” I rubbed the back of my neck and began pacing the small kitchen.

  “Donovan, I know you think I’m weak and that I’ll go back to Marcus at the drop of a hat, but this time I won’t. Yes, I’m weak. I always have been.” Her voice caught at that admission and my heart broke a little more for her. She turned her distraught gaze to me and bared her heart. “He promised me he would leave her; finally, after all these years. And that he would stop being so violent. I’m not taking him back, but it feels like I’m walking away from something I put my whole life into, and just when I can have what I’ve always wished for, I’m saying no. Do you know how hard that is?”

  She was so fucking close to freedom; if he screwed with that, I would fucking move the plan up and take the bastard out myself. It was, after all, what I’d always planned to do. And to watch my father suffer at my hands would fill me with the deepest fucking satisfaction I’d ever felt.

  My voice was low and controlled when I spoke. If I didn’t control it, I would explode at her. “I want so much more for you, Mum. I understand that back when you had me, you had no family to support you, so you thought sticking with Marcus was the right thing, but now you have me. I can give you anything you need or want.”

  “You can’t give me the one thing I need: the love of a man,” she whispered.

  The roar between my ears was deafening, and I lost my fight to control myself. “Marcus wouldn’t fucking know love if it smacked him in the face!” I yelled, wild at him, at her, and at the fucking injustice of a world full of hateful people. “Can you not fucking see that?” I hated swearing at my mother but I couldn’t help it today. I needed to get out of here before I lost my shit completely.

  She began crying, and I wanted to smash my fists into the wall. All the anger and frustration inside me threatened to spill over, and I clenched and unclenched my fists over and over in an effort to stop myself.

  “I know I should see that, but I can’t bring myself to move past the feelings I’ve had for him for so long.” She was sobbing now. My mother had been fucked up by her father, and those sins had set her on this fucked-up path she couldn’t find a way out from.

  I pulled her to me and held her. My hand smoothed her hair over and over as she clung to me. When her sobbing had subsided, I murmured, “If you need me, any time of the day, you call me. If he keeps harassing you and won’t leave if you ask him to, you call me. I don’t care what I’m doing; I will come to you if you need me. Yeah?”

  The defeat I saw on her face killed me. It tore another fucking piece of my heart out. There should have been hope. After all this fucking time, she should be seeing the light and feeling real hope, but all he’d left her with was sadness and despair. “Yes,” she agreed softly.

  “Thank Christ,” I said before hugging her again.

  Relief flooded me, but the dark feelings of hatred and revenge stuck close like they always did.

  Soon.

  He’d be dealt with soon, and then, maybe she and I could finally find a way to move out of the darkness.

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  To My Readers

  Thank you for reading Revive. I hope you enjoyed Nash & Velvet. While I was writing this book I was a little concerned that Nash wouldn’t live up to your expectations - that he wouldn’t quite be who you thought he was. Nash has always been the fun, flirty, sexy biker in the Storm men. I always knew what his backstory was, but when I got into writing it, he was even more broken than I thought. And angry. The way he fought his feelings for Velvet really brought out the asshole in him, and that’s when I started to get concerned. However, he is who he is, and I stayed true to that.

  Writing this story turned out to be a very personal experience for me in that it touched on aspects of my own journey in life. I wrote some parts in tears because they stirred up emotions & feelings about stuff I’ve been through and am going through currently. But, through that,
I realised just how much writing the Storm MC series has, and is changing my life. And, for that, I really need to thank you for reading my books and supporting me.

  Thank you!

  Nina xx

  “Your largest fear carries your greatest growth.”

  (I don’t know who wrote this quote to give them credit.)

  Revive Playlist

  Revive was heavily influenced by music. I listen to music constantly while writing. You may have noticed that I listed a song at the beginning of each chapter - those songs helped inspire those chapters. Here’s a list of all the songs that inspired Nash & Velvet’s story.

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  Walk of Shame ~ Pink

  Scream ~ Usher (on repeat for sex scenes!)

  Addicted To You ~ Avicii

  Wild Ones ~ Flo Rida

  Bad Influence ~ Pink

  Raise Your Glass ~ Pink

  F**kin Perfect ~ Pink

  Slut Like You ~ Pink

  Total Eclipse of the Heart ~ Bonnie Tyler

  Livin’ La Vida Loca ~ Ricky Martin

  Need You Now ~ Lady Antebellum

  Lookin’ For A Good Time ~ Lady Antebellum

  Angels ~ Robbie Williams

  This Is Who I Am ~ Vanessa Amorosi

  I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston)

  Crazy In Love ~ Beyonce

  Broken-Hearted Girl ~ Beyonce

  All I Want Is You ~ U2

  I’m The Only One ~ Melissa Etheridge

  Piece Of My Heart ~ Melissa Etheridge

  Cream ~ Prince

  Kiss ~ Prince

  Get Off ~ Prince

  The Great Escape ~ Pink

  Bleeding Love ~ Leona Lewis

  Man! I Feel Like A Woman ~ Shania Twain

  Undressed ~ Kim Cesarion

  Who You Love ~ John Mayer & Katy Perry

  Everything Has Changed ~ Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran

  The King of Wishful Thinking ~ Go West

  Last Kiss ~ Taylor Swift

  Out of Reach ~ Gabrielle

  Collide ~ Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow

  Sad ~ Maroon 5

  Big Girls Don’t Cry ~ Fergie

  Just A Fool ~ Christina Aguilera & Blake Shelton

  The Last Time ~ Taylor Swift

  Low - feat T-Pain ~ Flo Rida

  Replay ~ Zendaya

  Stay With Me ~ Sam Smith

  Need You Tonight ~ INXS

  Better Man ~ Lady Antebellum

  Do I Wanna Know ~ Arctic Monkeys

  Hey Jealousy ~ Gin Blossoms

  Mr. Brightside ~ The Killers

  Never Be The Same ~ Jessica Mauboy

  Better Than Me ~ Hinder

  Tonight I Wanna Cry ~ Keith Urban

  Stupid Boy ~ Keith Urban

  One Last Breath ~ Creed

  My Sacrifice ~ Creed

  Maps ~ Maroon 5

  Say Something ~ A Great Big World

  Dayum, Baby ~ Florida Georgia Line

  Love’s Poster Child ~ Keith Urban

  Who I Am With You ~ Chris Young

  Can’t Stand The Rain ~ Lady Antebellum

  Get To Me ~ Lady Antebellum

  Unstoppable ~ Rascal Flatts

  Hands On You ~ Florida Georgia Line

  Boom Clap ~ Charli XCX

  Thunder ~ Jessie J

  Broken - Featuring Amy Lee ~ Seether

  Brave ~ Sara Bareilles

  Ready To Love Again ~ Lady Antebellum

  This Means War ~ Nickelback

  I’d Come For You ~ Nickelback

  About the Author

  Dreamer.

  Coffee Lover.

  Gypsy at heart.

  USA Today Bestselling author who writes about alpha men & the women they love.

  When I’m not creating with words you will find me planning my next getaway, visiting somewhere new in the world, having a long conversation over coffee and cake with a friend, creating with paper or curled up with a good book and chocolate.

  I’ve been writing since I was twelve. Weaving words together has always been a form of therapy for me especially during my harder times. These days I’m proud that my words help others just as much as they help me.

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