Free Black Dogs Motorcycle Club: Full Series Box Set by Sienna Valentine Page A

did belong somewhere. I found an apartment and got a job
at a pharmacy. I found new, boring friends to do normal things like go to the
movies and have dinner parties. I paid my bills and wore my seatbelt. I did everything
you were always trying to push me into, Henry. I tried to rise above this life
that was always good enough for you and mom, but never for me. ” She stopped for a second to quell her rising anger. “ But
I guess I ’ m your daughter no
matter what either of us wants, because before I knew it, I was hanging out at
dive bars and making dangerous friends. ”
     
    Henry moved to speak and she stopped
talking. But he swallowed whatever he was going to say.
     
    She continued. “ The
crimes started small and harmless. They got the shit I snuck them from work,
and I got my thrills, and extra money too. I started getting romantic with one
of them. Things were fine until the pharmacy caught on to my scam and fired me.
We blew through my savings in a couple of weeks and started doing riskier
robberies to make up for it. Everyone was crashing at my apartment by this
point, and Evan … my ex… as
soon as I lost my connection to the pills, he dropped any act that he had ever
cared and started beating me. ”
     
    If there was one way to make a roomful of
tough-guy bikers tense up in discomforted rage, it was wife-beating. Nearly
every pair of boots in the room shifted at the sounds of that confession. Wood
creaked under their feet. Maggie looked up and saw Jase biting his lip, gaze on
the floor.
     
    “ When I realized he was
planning to force me into prostitution as a new way to make money, I knew I had
to get out. It took some maneuvering and longer than I wanted it to, but I was
finally able to sneak out one night. At first I didn’t know where I would go
even if I did leave … but
where else could I go? I had to come back here. ”
     
    The room was heavy and tense after she
finished. Henry spoke first. “ Your
ex and his cronies, do you think they could have done the roadhouse shooting?
Does it seem like their MO? ”
     
    Maggie frowned as she thought. “ Evan
is certainly crazy enough to not care about killing innocent people … he popped off rounds during robberies before just
because he could. And he was controlling enough to want to get back at me for
running. But they’ve always been small-timers, easily distracted. Maybe I just
underestimated them. ”
     
    “ Or maybe they’ve got big
friends, ” said Beck.
     
    “I ’ m
sorry I didn’t tell you all this before. I thought I would be safe once I was
out of Eagleton. I really didn’t think they would follow me. ”
     
    Henry watched her for a few moments.  “You ’ re
going to need to give the names of these bastards to the sheriff, but I ’ m
going to make sure it ’ s
us who finds them first. ”
     
    “ Something doesn’t make
sense though, ” said Maggie. “ Evan
and the gang didn’t know anything about my life before Eagleton. I never talked
about the MC. If they were the shooters, how would they know to be looking for
bikers at the roadhouse? ”
     
    “ I don’t know, ” said Henry. “ But
however they found out, it sounds like they know you ’ re
getting protection with an MC. ” He
turned and addressed the group. “ Everyone
needs to be on high alert. These bastards might shoot at any one of us if they
think it will get them to Maggie. Keep an ear to the ground about any out-of-towners.
Tommy, run up to my gun cabinet and grab the 12-gauge and the Bersa 9mm with
some rounds. ”
     
    Jase finally spoke from the doorway. “ What’s
the plan? ”
     
    “ Maggie ’ s
going to give us all the info on these assholes she has, and we ’ re
going to send it out through our contacts until we track them down. This just
turned from a friendly chat into something else, ” said
Henry. When Tommy brought him the guns he requested, Henry took them and walked
over to where Maggie still sat at the bar. He held them out for