Broken (Soldiers of Darkness MC Book 1) by Michelle Betham

from my cheek, and our eyes lock. The connection is so real, so powerful, and it scares the shit outta me. I’m in a situation I ain’t ever been in before, and I have no fucking clue how to handle it.
    ‘But that’s exactly what happened. I found somebody on the internet. He lives in a town about forty miles from here, and he… Jesus! My dad would fucking freak if he knew some of the shit I’ve done…’
    ‘What did he do, Izzi? This man. What did you let him do?’
    She’d broken the stare for a second or two but her eyes are back on mine now, and all I can see in them is a determination I ain’t sure I can fight.
    ‘He taught me to shoot; how to handle a gun. He taught me to fight, taught me how to deal with the kind of shit I had every chance of coming across. He taught me how to survive; how to become this person I needed to be in order to do that.’
    ‘Why didn’t you just ask him to help you kill Viper’s crew?’ I could’ve bitten my tongue off the second the words were out of my mouth. I’ve just given her the fucking information she needs to cause a whole heap of trouble, and there’s no way I can take it back now.
    Her eyes narrow, and her face clouds over with a hardness I’m fast becoming familiar with. ‘Viper’s crew…’ She whispers the words, and that sends a wave of dread shooting through me.
    ‘This man you went to, Izzi… who was he?’
    Her eyes are darting this way and that now, like she’s on edge, anxious; like she’s just snorted something up that pretty nose of hers and now it’s taking effect. ‘I can’t…’ All of a sudden she snaps out of the trance she appeared to have drifted into. ‘He… he’s no one.’
    Her voice has suddenly gone all weird, and I’m fucking worried now. ‘Why didn’t you just get him to help you, Izzi?’
    ‘It wasn’t an option.’
    ‘So you came to me.’
    She stares at me, and she doesn’t say anything for a few, long beats and I have no idea why she’s making me feel this way, but she’s scaring the living crap outta me. And giving me a hard-on I’m trying like hell to ignore.
    ‘I came to you.’
    ‘Why?’
    ‘I’ve already told you why. Your MC is close to where it all happened…’
    ‘But it didn’t happen in my town.’
    ‘I came to you, Mack.’
    It’s like I’m talking to a freakin’ robot. She’s just closed down, shut off, and I don’t understand any of this. I don’t know how big a problem she’s really gonna be, and I don’t even know if sending her home is the answer now.
    ‘I send you home… even if I put you on that plane myself you’re just gonna keep coming back, aren’t you?’
    ‘Like a fucking boomerang.’
    I’m on her in a flash, so quickly she couldn’t have seen it coming, but I’ve got her pinned against the wall now and she is gonna listen to me, even if it’s the last thing she fucking does. ‘No more games, Izzi. I’m done with the fucking games…’
    The kick she gives to my stomach sends me reeling. The bitch has knocked every last fucking breath out of me.
    ‘You think this is a game? Huh?’
    I manage to stand upright, clutching my stomach as I try to get my breath back, but I’m struggling. ‘Looks like your mystery man taught you well, baby girl.’
    ‘You don’t know the fucking half of it.’
    I can’t stop the smirk playing at the corner of my mouth. I have never, in my entire life, come across a chick like this one. She is something else – hot, horny, tough. But she’s also unpredictable, and that worries me. ‘You’re ain’t gonna let this go, are you?’
    She shakes her head, and I’m almost resigned to the fact that she’s a problem I might not want or need, but I’m gonna have to deal with it. I’ve got no choice.
    ‘I’ll track them down, no matter what. You’ve already given me a name, so, I’ll find them, and I’ll kill them myself. There’ll be no blood on your hands, I promise you. Nobody need know you gave me the