Betrayed (Soldiers of Darkness MC Book 2) by Michelle Betham Read Free Book Online

lets him know I ain’t in the mood for conversation. And he gets that. He ain’t stupid.
    ‘Sam appears to have changed the game.’
    My frown deepens, but I don’t shift my eyes from him.
    ‘It would seem my long-lost brother is a man who likes to bear a grudge; a man whose word can’t really be trusted. He never forgot or forgave me for what I did, and now he finally appears to be looking for some kind of payback.’
    I draw deep on my cigarette before tossing it to the ground, grinding it into the concrete with the heel of my boot. And still I say nothing.
    ‘There’s a reason he chose New Mexico, Zeb. He chose to come here because this is where I’ve been for a long time now, minding my own business, getting on with my life, knowing you were keeping me safe by…’
    ‘He wants you dead, huh?’
    He laughs quietly, his eyes boring into mine. ‘Yeah. He does.’
    Kes Zebrowski was the man who’d driven into Sam’s girl – Mack’s mother; mowed her down and left her to die on the street like roadkill. Sam just hadn’t known, at the time, that the man who’d done that was his brother. My grandaddy had moved us all out of North Carolina when he found out what Kes had done, took us all to Texas where his cousin ran an MC just south of Dallas, but even he had no idea that Kes had a brother; that he had another son. Different moms, different circumstances. He only knew about Kes.
    But Sam was never gonna be the kinda man to forget what Kes had done, and when he did find out just who the man was who’d killed Mack’s mother, that’s when he’d contacted Kes, asked him to come see him in prison; when he’d contacted me and struck up this deal – I work for him, my dad lives. And I’d always wondered what the hell that was all about, and maybe it was my morbid curiosity that had led me to agree to it in the first place, but now I’m beginning to wonder why he didn’t just have Kes killed the second he found out what he’d done. But I’m guessing he had his reasons.
    ‘You can’t be surprised. That he wants you dead.’
    ‘Nothing surprises me no more, son. Not in this life. What surprises me is that he waited this long. But as soon as I knew he was here, in Albequerque, I knew I was living on borrowed time.’
    I lean back against the wall and finally break the stare, looking down at the ground.
    ‘He’s gonna ask you to do it, Zeb. He’s gonna ask you to kill me.’
    My head snaps up and I look at him. ‘How do you know?’
    ‘I may not have known he existed for a long time, but I know my brother. I know the kind of man he is, and I know he’s gonna ask you to do this.’
    I say nothing for a couple of beats as I try to get my head around what’s happening here.
    ‘I was involved with a neighboring MC, Zeb. The Black Dogs.’
    Once more my head jerks upwards. The Black Dogs are the MC we do a lot of business with. They were the first MC around here that Sam reached out to, forged strong contacts with, Jesus! Now it really is all starting to add up. ‘You still with them?’
    ‘I ain’t involved like I used to be. Getting too old for all that shit now. But I still hang out at the clubhouse now and again. I’m still a part of the club, in a smaller way. And Sam knew that. That’s why you’re all here.’
    I briefly close my eyes and take a deep breath. Like I said before, Kes ain’t ever gonna pick up any dad-of-the-year awards, but as much as we ain’t ever really been all that close, I got no reason to see him dead. What he did to Mack’s mom, that was wrong, that ain’t right, she was an innocent who didn’t deserve to be left there like she didn’t matter. But Sam’s retribution ain’t mine.
    ‘I ain’t lying to you, son. Sam’s out to see me dead, but he ain’t gonna do that job himself. You gotta believe me, Zeb.’
    I don’t know what to believe anymore.
    And I ain’t sure who I can trust…

 
     
    Chapter Five
     
     
    Mack
     
    Do I feel good about what I said to