LETHAL (Devil's Shadow MC, BOOK 1) SAMPLE

Chapter 1: INTRODUCING ICE

Picture of Grace Knight

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🎵...BABY I GOT ME

AND THAT'S ALL I NEED...🎵

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GRACE

If you could define yourself with words, which ones would you choose?

I often wonder about this prospect as I watch people walking in the streets. I define some of them as naive fools. Some of them are perfect liars and some of them are like me. How would they define me?

As a killer? Or a survivor?

"He won't talk, Knight. Do you want to take over?"

I can hear Josh yelling through the half-opened door. Finally, my time is here. I can already imagine how much fun I'm going to have with the man currently strapped down in front of me.

"Knight, are you there?"

"Of course, darling." I grin as I open the door. My eyes are on Josh, but I can already feel a pair of desperate gaze on me. Dragging my attention from my friend/partner/fuck buddy to the bloodied man, I am face to face with a man who looks like he has lived on drugs more than any normal food. The stench of blood makes it harder to walk close to him, but I continue until I am standing in front of him.

"He won't talk, you say?" I ask Josh, to be clear. He nods excitedly, waiting for me to start torturing the unamused man.

"A girl." The man watches me in disbelief. "You are a girl."

Leaning down to his level, I have to wipe the blood from his swelling eyes. The moment I touch him, he flinches, trying to get away, but due to the tight ropes bounding him, he only manages to knock his head hard in the chair.

"Yes, darling. I'm a girl. Why? Did you not see this amazing body?" I run my fingers over my neck, smiling, but he only stares at my cold eyes.

Hmmm....he is still in shock. Fine by me.

"Y-You are a girl and you've been wipin' out MC's? How the fuck is that possible!?" He finally screams, thrashing around to get out. "I will never rat out my people. Punch me. Kill me. I don't care! You hear me, silly girl?"

Kill him. Show him who he is messing with.

"I will never—" Before he can say more, I reach for his mouth capturing it. He freezes when my tongue comes out to taste his bottom lips. They are mixed with blood, but hell if that was a problem ever. He only takes a second to push his blunt shock from his eyes before he is furiously kissing me back. I pull his hair, shoving my tongue into his inviting mouth, which earns him a frustrated groan. I can hear a distant damn not again retort from Josh. But I got what I wanted.

The element of surprise.

The man thought that, like Josh, I'm going to punch him, shoot him, or worse, kill him. Oh, no, I don't do that shit. I play. I play games. I play with minds. Let them think they are in control when I'm the one breaking their heart and pride like every other MC's I've wiped out. And, soon his own will also face the same fate as the others.

"That's enough, Knight." Hearing Josh scream, finally leaving a little nip, I release the man's lips. He is panting heavily, and his eyes are hooded.

Perfect.

"Knight." The warning in Josh's voice is as clear as day as I look at the confused, horny man. Turning around, I see Josh's jaw clenched with obvious anger. He strides around the room, mumbling curses, but I have yet to react. It was hilarious to see him flip out every time someone else other than him even kissed me on the cheek.

"What? You jealous?" I laugh, noticing his fists turning red. Josh doesn't say anything, but the man has obviously had enough as he frowns, looking at the both of us curiously.

"Why did you kiss me? I thought—"

"That I will kill you? Torture you?" Games over. Time to go back to the business. I shake my head chuckling. "I don't do that stuff, Michel. And the reason you are here, it's quite not because I want to wipe your club out. Because I want you to be the man everyone talks about when they hear the club's name."

He couldn't have looked any more shocked. "W-What? Y-You would do that? F-For me?"

"Hmm." I hum, kneeling to his level. I can see him trying not to look at my lips, but he fails as his eyes are already hooded again. "I like your strength, your loyalty. And I guess that just changed my mind about you. So much so that I have a proposition for you. Well, if you want a demonstration like that again..." I trail off touching his trembling lips, a chipped part of my nails almost drawing blood. "Then I need the name of the current President of your MC. I need to bring him down to make you the new President."

Hook, line, sinker.

I have his attention. And lucky for me, it looks like he hates his Prez because a grimace forms on his face immediately.

He still sounds hesitant as he says, "You sure up for it? To take him down?"

"If the prize is you, then, yes," I answer with a flirty wink. I'm barely able to force my smirk down when I finally hear the name I was waiting to know for the last four months.

"Lethal. We call him Lethal."

Lethal...

Something stirs in me hearing the name. A feeling so unknown. It must be the excitement of finally finishing the fuckers. I wasn't about to waste my breath staying in the Southside of Chicago if I didn't destroy every MC in this area. I had a promise to keep. Smiling, I gesture toward Josh, and he understands immediately what I was going to say because the next moment, he is kissing me with a brutal force. Punishment. It is punishment for kissing the man we both hated.

Breathing hard, I open my eyes to see Michel yelling at Josh to stay away from me. At that moment, Josh draws the gun and holds it up, pointing it at Michel's head. Michel's eyes widen and meet mine in shock, anger, and disappointment. He only notices the barely-there smirk before my cold voice is echoing through the room.

"Finish him. And don't forget to throw his body pieces in the clubhouse."

With that, I turn around and close the door on my way out. I can hear yelling, calling my name, screaming and then finally that sweet sound of a gunshot. And as Josh never misses, I can proudly say that...

Michel's dead.

Now, I have to find this Lethal and kill him with his own poison.

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