Free Shattered Dreams (Shadow Souls MC Book 2) by Tamara Knowles

Chapter One
     
    An anxiety-filled week passed for Chad. Most of him was overjoyed about this strange, unexpected relationship that was developing with Sierra. She was light, grace, beauty, and strength. She was everything that he desired in a woman. She was amazing, simply amazing. There was no other word for it. He knew there was no way he could not fall in love with her—because that’s what was happening. He never expected anything like this to happen to him—ever. All the jitters, nervousness, and anxiety were so weird, so surreal and strange.
     
    However, the other part of him was continually worried about what was going to happen next. He knew that Sierra had called Richard, and he knew that Richard undoubtedly did something to cause problems for the two of them. There was no way he was just going to let it slide. He wasn’t sure about the decision to tell that bastard anything, but what was done was done, and there was nothing else he could do. He was sure something would happen very soon, but he was trying his absolute hardest to ignore the sense of impending doom and focus on the beautiful and amazing woman who had dropped into his life.
     
    But then, one day his phone did ring. When he answered it, it was the Shadow Souls. He couldn’t tell who was on the other end of the line, but he figured it probably wasn’t anyone he knew anyway. He had almost removed himself from the MC entirely. He couldn’t look any of the guys in the eyes, knowing what he knew about Scott’s death.
     
    “Chad Pender?”
     
    “Yes?”
     
    “We know what you’ve done. We know who you are working for, and we will be coming for you. We aren’t going to let things like that slide.”
     
    “Like what?”
     
    “You know exactly what we are talking about.”
     
    “I’m afraid I don’t.”
     
    “The name Scott Hall mean anything to you, idiot?”
     
    Chad hung up the phone, his sense of dread increasing with every second. Everything he feared and never wanted to happen was coming true. He didn’t even know he could feel this protective over one person. He didn’t know it was possible to be this afraid of hurting one person, either. He didn’t want everything dangerous and dark in his past to affect this precious and amazing woman who was turning his world around in a thousand ways.
     
    However, he had to tell her. She had to know the danger they were in, and he decided to bring it up during dinner. “Sierra?” he asked.
     
    “Yeah?” she asked, raising one eyebrow.
     
    “I… I gotta tell you something.”
     
    “Okay.” She gestured with her hand, trying to encourage him to actually get to the point.
     
    “I got a call from the Shadow Souls today. They heard a bad rumor about me. And Scott.”
     
    “What? Like you were gay for each other or something?” she teased, but he could tell she was worried.
     
    “No. That I killed him and that I am working for James Northorp.”
     
    She put down her fork and laced her fingers together. “What is the truth?”
     
    “I’ve told you the truth,” he lied.
     
    “You don’t work for James?”
     
    “I’ve never met the guy.”
     
    “And you had nothing to do with Scott’s death?”
     
    “Nothing that I haven’t already told you.” It almost physically hurt to lie to her.
     
    She leaned across the table and kissed him. “Is there anything else?”
     
    “Um.  Well. They most definitely have threatened me.”
     
    “What?” she asked in a flat, hallow voice.
     
    “They are coming to seek revenge on me for what they think I did.”
     
    She came over to his side of the table and wrapped her arms around him. “It’s okay. We will figure it out. I promise. We will.”

 
    Chapter Two
     
    A week passed in almost complete bliss. Chad surprised her in a thousand different ways almost every day. He would show up with flowers or chocolates or some cheesy 80s movie that he knew all the words to. He would tell her she was beautiful even when she