Grim (Reapers MC #13) - Elizabeth Knox Page 0,1

my bones registers before the pain, but as it does, I scream bloody murder. We live in a small Scottish town on the coast and the neighbors come running out, all seeing David standing over me.

“Mum?!” Aggie screams, sounding distraught.

“Keep your sisters inside!” I tell her, not wanting her to see me like this, nor her father being a monster.

“Back away from her, David!” Richard, our neighbor snarls. Chester, our other neighbor comes up beside him and helps to ensure David backs off the patio. Alice, Chester’s wife comes up beside me and calls a medic.

“Oh my God, Natalie . . . what has he done to you?”

I don’t know what he’s done, but the only thing I do know is I’ll be getting my girls out of here. My parents just moved to Montana and told me if we ever wanted to come visit, we could. They might regret that decision when they know I don’t plan on coming back to Scotland.

Chapter One

Pay attention to what people say out of anger. They’ve been dying to tell you that

~ Live Life Happy

Grim

11 months later . . .

“You’re going to be alright, okay?” Shiloh tells me, taking my hand as she sits beside my hospital bed.

I rip it from her, not even giving the slightest fuck. Why is she even here in the first place? She made her choice. She said she wanted more . . . and now she’s here. It doesn’t make any fuckin’ sense to me. She made such a big thing about wanting more than being shared between the three of us, how she wanted to be an ol’ lady and all of that. What she never took a second to realize is I would’ve made her my ol’ lady in a heartbeat ‘cause I loved her.

Shit, I still love her. Even after she ripped my heart out . . . I’ll still care for her. Sometimes, I think I will until the day I die.

“Shi’,” I call her by a nickname I hadn’t called her since she was in my bed the last time, which was years ago at this point. Fuck, I just got over my heartache, the knife in my heart always being twisted a little more as I see the way she constantly smiles at one of our club prospects, Hammer. He’s a good dude, but it doesn’t make anything any easier. “I need you to leave. You haven’t given two fucks about me, and I don’t want you here. You’re only gonna piss me off.”

Her expression falters into a look of sadness and I see the way her eyes begin to water. “You could’ve died today, Grim. What the fuck? Are you serious . . . you want me to leave? You could’ve died!” She repeats it like it makes a bit of difference, but it doesn’t.

“Yeah, I could’ve . . . but I didn’t.” I retort, rolling my eyes at her.

“Damn, you’re feelin’ a bit salty today.” Axel, my brother, speaks up from the corner of the room.

I went out on a ride after I got in an argument with him, then add seeing Shiloh all flirty with Hammer and I got pissed. I left, sped a little more than I should’ve and didn’t pay attention to the way it was just starting to snow. Combine the slick roads, what I thought was only a bit of rain . . . and here I am, lying in a hospital bed with scrapes and bruises all over my body. I have some nasty cuts, but I was damn lucky. This shit could’ve been so much worse.

“Don’t tell me you’d be treating her any different if you were in my position,” I growl back at him.

“I wouldn’t be actin’ like I had a damn stick up my ass, treatin’ her like shit.” Axel comes to Shiloh’s defense.

Does he not remember the way she cut us off, acted like she never gave a rat’s ass about us? ‘Cause I do. I remember bein’ the happiest man to walk the Earth and then how the woman of my dreams tore everything to shreds.

I would’ve made her my ol’ lady.

I would’ve made her my fuckin’ wife.

I would’ve sunk my cock so far into her, she’d be pregnant every nine months.

But she didn’t tell me what she wanted. Instead, I thought she was fine with the arrangement between Axel, Zorro and I. I thought she wanted to be shared, that she was like Roxy in that way