chapter 1

...Prologue – 14 years ago...

Ash looked around the room, feeling each one’s

helplessness and guilt, and he could feel the tension

growing.

“Boys,” Pop said roughly, “I know how much you all loved

Celeste. We’re family, no matter what blood runs through

our veins. We have to stick together.” He turned to leave the

room. “We will honor Celeste’s memory forever.”

After several minutes, Angel broke the deafening silence.

“We are going to kill each of them. One by one.”

Beau cleared his throat, “I’m in.”

“Me too,” Knox declared.

“We kill every single one,” Wolf stated. “We wipe them off

the fucking planet.”

Hawk leaned forward and nodded, “Count me in.”

“I’m in,” Ash said.

“Me too,” Colt and Maddox added at the same time.

Angel nodded. “We need to stay under the radar, work in

the darkness of the shadows, and be invisible. We’ll hit each

one when they’re least expecting it, and we make it painful.

Just like they did to Celeste.”

The boys stayed up all night that night making plans –

plans to kill each one of the most dangerous gangsters in

the state of Washington, the ones who had deprived them of

the sister they had all loved. And they all knew that they

would enjoy every minute of it because inside each one of

them, there was a darkness that was ready to be unleashed.

A darkness that stayed in the shadows until it was time to

come out and play.

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Kylie

Another date from an online dating site. When had

trying to find a relationship come to this? Where had the

days gone when people fell in love with their high school

sweethearts and lived happily ever after?

Pffh.

Yeah, right.

Like that was even possible, considering the only

person Kylie had ever lusted after in high school had been

the biggest bad boy in the entire school, who didn’t even

know she existed.

Okay, that wasn’t entirely true.

He knew she existed. Since she had been in some

advanced classes, they’d had chemistry together and had

sat at the same table in that class for the entire year. Also,

there was the one and only time when she was a sophomore

that she had gone to a high school graduation party by

herself where a drunk senior had tried getting too handsy,

and the notorious bad boy had pulled the guy off of her.

Then said bad boy had driven her home and threatened to

spank her if he ever saw her at a party by herself again

taking drinks from strangers or putting herself in any kind of

dangerous situation, for that matter. That had been the last

time she had seen Ash Russell. In person anyway.

Even before Ash had threatened to spank her, Kylie

had already heard rumors around school that he liked the

girls that he dated to call him Daddy, and he had a thing for

putting them over his lap and spanking them. She hadn’t

believed those rumors, of course… Not until that fateful

night that he actually threatened to spank her.

Even though she had been a sophomore at the time

and he a senior, she knew well enough that being spanked

by Ash was something that had frightened her but also

stirred some new and hidden part of her to life. Something

that she hadn’t stopped thinking about for the past sixteen

years.

Which brought her to her current situation. She was

getting ready for a date with a potential Daddy that she’d

met on a BDSM dating website. As much as she wished she

was more excited about it, she just wasn’t. The man she

was meeting, Ted, seemed nice. He had a good job as a tax

accountant, and he owned his own home. Both of those

things were huge pluses when it came to meeting a man

online.

Ted was eight years older than Kylie, with no kids or

pets. From the photos that she’d seen of him, he was

attractive in a cute dorky sweater vest kind of way. Ted had

told her that he had been a Daddy for over fifteen years but

hadn’t had a Little of his own for the past two years after his

now ex-wife left him for another man.

Kylie stood in front of her closet, staring at the row of

clothes. She was having a hard time deciding if she should

wear a dress or not. They had made plans to meet at a

restaurant to talk over dinner, and then Ted had suggested

that they could go to Shadows for a drink afterward.

He said that Shadows was a nightclub, but Daddies

and Littles were known to frequent there when they didn’t

feel like going to The Playground, which she’d learned from

him was a BDSM club. She had agreed, mostly because she

had always been curious about Shadows but had never had

the guts to go. After learning about The Playground, she was

curious about the idea of going to such a place where

people could be completely open about who they were. But

she guessed that a BDSM club wasn’t a good idea for a first

date. It might give the wrong impression.

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