Soul Of A Woman (The Dark Souls) by Jamie Begley Read Free Book Online Page A

men in your unit knew you had their backs during the first fights. You were an excellent soldier. I watched many of your fights. You almost died many times, but I was always there, protecting you. It wasn’t your time.
    “One battle in particular was very bloody. You were engaged by enemy fire when the whole camp was bombed. Many soldiers died that night, but your team survived because you had moved them miles away to the next camp. Why did you do that? The camp you were stationed at was supposed to be the safer of the two, yet you moved them. Why?” Broni was surprised when he actually answered her question.
    “I had a gut feeling something was g oing to happen. I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. It wouldn’t stop until I told my men to gather their gear.” Adam’s voice was hard as memories of that night were brought back to life.
    Broni nodded. “That was me. Remember that knife fight in Tucson? When those bikers jumped you?” Broni continued, despite his silence, “You couldn’t believe you survived. That was me. They were determined to steal your money. They waited for you that night in the dark, watched as you got drunk, and left with that prostitute at your side. You were about to get in your truck when they struck, yet you were ready with your own knife, killing both of them before they could lay a hand on you. Why did you have your knife hidden in your pocket at the ready?”
    “I felt like someone was telling me about danger. I thought it was just nerves being back in the states, but I still pulled my knife out of my boot just in case.”
    Broni nodded.
    “How do you know so much about me?”
    “I told you that you wouldn’t believe me.” Sadness was in her eyes as she turned her attention to Rhys. He had come a long way from the spoiled, rich man wearing thousand-dollar suits. “How should I convince you, Rhys? I can tell you anything about your life you want to know, yet you would still doubt me. It is in your nature to look for deceit.”
    Rhys stiffened. “Not always.”
    Broni really did not want to speak her next words, knowing the pain she was about to cause Rhys regardless of his treatment of her—he would’ve callously let her be raped by the bikers without lifting a hand to help to prevent it.
    “Even before your family’s deaths, that was why you became a lawyer.” Sighing, Broni’s weariness etched her profile. Her voice broke on her next sentence. “When your family died, it cemented a century’s worth of the ugliness of the humans you tried to protect.”
    Di sgust was written all over his face. His chair fell back as he got to his feet. Broni bit her lip. He wasn’t going to listen any longer.
    “Sit down,” Adam ordered Rhys. “Is she telling the truth? Are you a lawyer?”
    “Not since my family was killed ,” Rhys clarified as he picked his chair up, reluctantly resuming his seat.
    Broni turned to Jace who was staring stoically at her, not letting his expression give anything away. The club enforcer would be the hardest to convince.
    “Do you regret taking the life of your brother?”
    Jace’s chair scraped against the floor as he stood to his feet. “I’m not sitting here listening to any more of this bullshit. She’s obviously with the cops who gave her all this information on us.”
    “If the police knew you had deliberately killed your brother , why wouldn’t they have arrested you?” Broni reasoned.
    “No evidence.” He neither confirmed nor denied killing his brother.
    “The gun that is buried in your mother’s grave would be proof enough, don’t you think?” Broni mocked his words.
    When Jace sat back down in his chair, Mason stiffened in his chair as Broni turned to look at him.
    “Mason , remember when you were seventeen? You broke into that home, searching for something to steal to purchase the drugs you were becoming addicted to? You thought the house was empty, but it wasn’t, was it? The father of the small family heard you; he found