by Vera Quinn
Demented Revengers MC: Quitman Chapter Box set
Vera Quinn
Contents
Surviving for Tomorrow
Title
Character List
Blurb
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
Surviving, One Day at a Time
Title
Character List
Blurb
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
Afterword
Only In Their Dreams
Prologue One
Prologue Two
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Rules in Life
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
Surviving Until The End
Title
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Character List
Blurb
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
Two months later….
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue One
Epilogue Two
Questions
Authors Thoughts
Surviving The Chaos Of Life
Title
Warnings
Thank You
Dedication
Character List
Blurb
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
Epilogue One
Epilogue Two
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Demented Revengers MC: Quitman Chapter Book One
Copyright
Surviving for Tomorrow
Copyright ©2016 by Vera Quinn
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission. All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
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Cover by: Tracie Douglas @ Dark Water Covers
Dedication
Thank you to my husband, Charles. He is my better half, trust me. Thank you to my family who supports me.
Thank you to each of the authors who have taken their time to help me and welcome me. Thank you to Johnna Seibert, my great PA. She keeps me straight.
Thank you to Vicky, Tracey, Nicole, Kori, Shanna, Jessica, Joanne, Sherri and all of Vera’s Teasers for pimping my name, my teasers, links, and just everything. For being my sounding board and supporting me. You are the best.
Thank you to each and every one of you that read and review my books. You make my work worth the time.
Character List
List of characters:
Gracie and Shelby Roberts
Jilly Franks- Brody’s cousin by adoption and Kaden’s sister
Brody Samms- Gracie’s husband
Kaden & Laura Samms- Jilly’s Brother & sister in-law
Gladys & Charlie Samms- Brody’s adopted mom & dad
Audie Sanchez- Rebel’s Mom
Mr. Lemons – Gracie’s Attorney
Kendall Giles-Gracie’s ex and Shelby’s dad
Lorraine Giles -Giles woman- Kendall Giles’s mom and Shelby’s grandma
Donald Giles- Kendall’s dad
Kendall’s three brothers- Lincoln, Scott, & Reginald
Demented Revengers MC: Quitman Chapter
Rebel (Antonio) Sanchez-President
Spinner-VP
Dawg Man- Road Captain (Sylvie is his ol’ lady)
Sin- SAA
Tip- tech man
Salty- Treasurer (Angie is his ol’ lady)
Cue Ball- Secretary
Hawk-Enforcer
Lingo-member
Tim- prospect
Crowder-prospect
Club Girls:
Jade
Whinny
Sugar
Starla
Teal
Blurb
Have You ever feared that the last breath you took would be the last one you ever get?
Woke up from a nightmare to realize your reality is worse?
Learned to take a slap as if it is a love tap because what comes next is a hell of a lot worse.
Know that your only reason to live is to protect the innocent child you brought into this messed up situation.
Come to the realization that the man you thought would be your happily ever after is actually a monster and the one that will eventually end your miserable existence when he is finished punishing you for living.
That was my life until I started Surviving For Tomorrow.
Prologue
Have you ever feared that the last breath you took would be the last one you ever get? Woke up from a nightmare to realize your reality is worse? Learned to take a slap as if it is a love tap because what comes next is a hell of a lot worse? Know that your only reason to
live is to protect the innocent child you brought into this messed up situation? Come to the realization that the man you thought would be your happily-ever-after is a monster and the one that will eventually end your miserable existence when he is finished punishing you for breathing?
I’m Gracie Roberts and this was my life. Until a kind person saw the signs of what was happening to me and decided to help. She helped me to plan. She gave me the courage to hope for more. She taught me how to skim money out of what I was given to be able to get away. The day finally arrived, and she held my hand as I emptied my bank account and left with nothing more than a diaper bag and a backpack. She already had set up transportation, a place to live, and clothes for myself and my daughter.
She sent me back to her hometown and to people she knew would help, and if it came down to it, protect us. Good people. I am twenty-three years old with a one-year-old daughter and today is the first day of the beginning of my life. The day I learn to breathe without fear and stop just Surviving for Tomorrow.
Chapter One
Gracie
I have been watching the miles pass us by from the back seat of a truck. I had only met the man driving a day ago. All I know about him is his name is Kaden Samms, he is the sheriff of Wood County, he’s Jilly Frank’s older brother, and he is helping to save my life.
Jilly Franks was a nurse I met in the ER of the hospital I had to go to after another beating from the monster that used to be my boyfriend and who is the father of my daughter, Shelby. Jilly saw the marks he left and the x-rays of my bruised and cracked ribs. It would have been bad enough if it was the first time she had seen it, but it wasn’t. She seemed to always be there when I needed assistance. She had witnessed me with concussions, a broken arm, cuts, more busted ribs, and bruised kidneys. All within the last year. Each time she would talk to me and try to get me to press charges, but I was afraid of losing my daughter. Still, she gave me advice I began to follow.
This last time I thought I was going to die and then where would that leave Shelby?
Jilly is a good woman with a big heart. She told me to start slipping money back to save. Find where our bank checks were and take one out. To pack a diaper bag for the baby and a backpack for me with clothes and important papers and stash them somewhere safe where they wouldn’t be found. When I showed up hardly able to walk with Shelby on my hip she wasn’t taking no for an answer. With the two cracked ribs, bruised kidneys, a body covered in bruises and choke marks on my throat she said enough was enough. I went back home without Shelby. I grabbed the bags and she took me to take out the money I had left from my parent’s insurance. Then Jilly hid us until her brother could pick me up and take us to the town Jilly and Kaden grew up in.
Jilly cried when we left this morning. I have no tears left. Those ran out a few months back. I watch Shelby sleep, and I don’t know how I will raise her by myself, but I will manage. My parents, Sally and Luther, never had much but they raised me with love. I lost them both within six months of each other the year after graduation. Mom had a stroke in her sleep and dad had a short battle with cancer. Right before I was nineteen they were both gone. They both had insurance, which surprised me, but I was alone for the first time in my life.
The house I just left is in my name. Left to me by my parents, but I would rather have my life than that house.
Kendall was my high school sweetheart, the only boyfriend I have ever had. We were great together until he moved in with me. He was always possessive, but once he moved in, he became obsessive about it. He made me quit the job that I had had since I was sixteen because he said no woman of his was going to be a waitress waiting on other men. He alienated me from all my friends. If one happened to come over, when he came home he was rude, and they finally quit coming around.
Then he all of a sudden decided it was time to start a family. I was hesitant, but he finally wore me down. Until I was five months pregnant, I couldn’t have asked for a more attentive boyfriend. I thought we had gotten to a place in our relationship where we were a perfect couple. That was a nice thought, for about a half a second.
The day I went for the sonogram to find out the sex of our baby the fairytale was over as soon as the technician said it was a girl. He was horrified we weren’t having a boy. He said all Giles men have boys for their first child. Then he went off that this was not his child, that I had to have cheated. I was so embarrassed. The technician was shocked.
I left that office with my head down. Things were never the same after that day. He came home late, if at all. He yelled at me and called me horrible names. Women would call our home, and I found lipstick on more than one of his shirts. When he did crawl home, he smelled of perfume and liquor. It came to a head the day before I gave birth to Shelby.
He had been out all night, and I had been feeling bad, and the shirt he wanted for work was not clean. He worked for his dad, and he always dressed to impress. He flew into a rage and backhanded me, and I fell into the edge of the kitchen counter. He left me there alone. I went into labor that night, and I tried calling him. A woman answered his phone. When she did give him the phone, he said he wasn’t coming home. I went to the hospital by cab, and that was the first night I met Jilly. She held my hand until I was taken to the maternity ward. Shelby came screaming into the world nine hours later. I was alone. Jilly was the only other person to hold Shelby in the hospital that night.
Kendall showed up the next day and demanded a DNA test and left. It was ok with me. I didn’t want him around me. Jilly took me home the next day and checked on me many times. She made sure I made it to the grocery store, and we had everything we needed. Four weeks later the DNA test was back. I told Kendall, Shelby was his daughter. He was livid. He came back home, but I paid for it every day he was there. I told him he could leave and never see us again and he wouldn’t hear it, he would have been disowned.
My hell began that night he came back home, and it progressed until the last incident. I noticed he was not the same man I fell in love with. Besides the violence towards me he had begun to drink every day. From the time he came home until he finally either passed out or went to sleep. He was jittery. He had begun to lose weight. He’d started taking money out of our bank account. He had insisted his name be on it, giving him access to what was left of my parent’s insurance money. He had dropped all the classes he had enrolled in at his dad’s insistence. He had lost all self- control.
Now I am just glad it is over. I signed the papers to sell the house at a real estate company, and I hope I never see that place again. I would have been just as happy to see it burn but I had to think of Shelby’s future.
Now here I am dependent on the kindness of strangers. I have eight thousand dollars, and I am headed to the unknown. The unknown is better than what I had been living with.
We have been traveling most of the day. We stopped long enough for us to eat and when I needed to change Shelby. Kaden is a man with kind, understanding eyes. I haven’t learned much about him, but he has tried to help as much as he can. He’s good with Shelby. I found out on our last stop he has twin boys. They are twelve years old, so he says he is a little rusty with babies. Jilly has never had children, so he has no nieces or nephews.
It’s getting close to sundown. We have been on the road for close to fourteen hours. We are coming into a small town. I see the city limits sign, and we are in Winnsboro. We have arrived.
“My wife, Laura, had the electric, and everything turned on for you. We just put it in Jilly’s name so no one can find your name tied to it. Jilly just this year had it all disconnected. She tried to come in to visit once or twice a year but decided it was time to sell. I’m glad you can make good use of it. Laura stocked your fridge and pantry full, but she will call tomorrow to see if she forgot anything. She set up a crib for Shelby and stocked up on diapers. My aunt and uncle are right across the street if you need anything. Jilly had her pick up one of those disposable phones too, and our numbers are in there if you need us. If yo
u have plastic under no circumstances do you use it. From what you told us I don’t think your boyfriend will have the funds to find you.” Kaden is glancing in his rearview mirror as he talks. I keep nodding my head yes.
