Steel Temptation (Back Down Devil MC #6)(64)

“He’s good,” Blaine said. “Digging.”

“I can’t…”

“It’s okay now. This is how it works, okay? Right and wrong… it’s not the same for us. There’s no judge and jury.”

“Well, there is a judge,” Mia said.

Blaine laughed. So hard that he wiped the corner of his eye.

They were about to bury a man alive and Blaine was laughing.

And Mia was smiling…

I’m sick, she thought.

No. She wasn’t sick though. This was true justice.

Once the hole was done, Nate grabbed Uncle Jake and put him in it. With his face pointed toward the sky.

“Start with his face,” Nate said. “Let the sky be the last thing he sees as he chokes on dirt and suffocates.”

“Fuck you!” Uncle Jake yelled. “Mia! Please! Mia…”

Nate jammed the shovel into the pile of dirt he made.

Mia grabbed his wrist. “Wait. Just… wait…”

“Yes,” Uncle Jake said. “Yes. Wait.”

“Tell me the truth,” Mia said. “Did you kill them both? Jacob and Aunt Theresa?”

Uncle Jake nodded. “Yeah. I did. Okay? Fine. I’ll admit it. Now get me out…”

Mia grabbed the shovel and threw the first mound of dirt to Uncle Jake’s face.

He instantly started to scream.

She turned and dropped the shovel.

Blaine put an arm around her and walked her away as Nate finished the job.

Uncle Jake screamed for a good minute… until he was completely covered… and soon… he’d be dead.





twenty-seven.



Nate had Mia by the wrists. She was against the wall. Completely naked. He was dressed and had full intentions of devouring every inch of her beautiful body. But when he started kissing her he couldn’t stop himself. He just wanted her. Everything she had to offer.

When he stopped kissing her, his nose teased hers. He moved down to her breast, playing with her nipple. He then gently kissed up her chest, back to her mouth.

“Fuck,” he said. “I love you.”

“I love you too, Nate,” Mia whispered.

“Everything is okay now,” Nate said. “I promise. It’s all gone.”

“What if they find him? You know there’s going to be a search party…”

“Then we cross that bridge later. I’m sure he had plenty of enemies. Think about it. Drug dealing, smuggling, working with other crews and gangs. Fuck. Coast Road MC is going to take some serious heat when the next delivery fails to show up. It’s all taken care of.”

Nate pressed his body to Mia’s.

“I feel like I have a purpose now,” Mia said. “I still don’t… I don’t know what it is, but if I’m near you, I feel okay.”

“Then you’ll just have to be near me all the time. Never leave my f*cking side.”

“That’s hard to do, isn’t it?” Mia asked.

Nate grinned. He then pulled back and swung Mia by her wrists. She let out a playful cry. Nate dropped to his knees and reached under the bed. He then kissed just below Mia’s belly button and stood back up. In his hand, he had a set of chains.

“I’ll chain you to my f*cking bed then,” he growled. “So you can never get away.”

Mia grinned. She put her hands to the chains and gripped them, pulling them from Nate’s hand.

“You don’t need these. You have your chains around my heart. Always pulling me along.”

“Fuck, I don’t do this shit,” Nate said. “I don’t do romance.”

“I don’t need you to do romance… just do me…”

Mia jumped and Nate caught her. She wrapped her legs around him and he lowered her to the bed. And there he stayed, kissing her for what felt like hours. Until their lips were raw red. Until they were out of breath. Until Nate’s heart couldn’t pound any faster or harder.

But then he broke the kiss and stared into Mia’s eyes.

And just like that… his heart found a way to pound faster and harder. For her.

***

Miller couldn’t stop thinking about it all.

How the f*ck did Chief Jerry get so f*cked up? Especially considering their past. What should have been.

Miller looked at his hands.

In his memory he thought of that night. The night he had a diamond ring… ready to slide it on the finger of a beautiful woman. Someone who deserved it. Who deserved true love and happiness. He had squeezed the damn ring so tight it cut his skin.

The funny part… he wasn’t nervous about asking Ella for her hand in marriage. He was ready to do it. Hell, from the second they met, he was ready to do it.

What stopped him was someone else. A clean cut, young man who was rocking through the ranks of the Frelen PD. A guy that Miller knew all too well. A guy that rode Miller’s ass and busted him on every occasion.

That night Miller was going to corner Ella and give her everything.

But that never happened.

Instead, Miller threw the diamond ring into the ocean. He let the waves eat it up. He let it all go. And from the sideline he watched Ella fall in love with Jerry. Miller became President of Back Down Devil MC and Jerry rose up until he was Chief of Frelen. They shook hands, worked together, and Miller swallowed lump after painful lump, fighting off the feelings for Ella. He endured their f*cking engagement, marriage, buying a house, buying a car, and even the pregnancy. The f*cking baby… the little family that Miller always thought about.