Reckless by Elizabeth Knox

Author:Elizabeth Knox [Knox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: motorcycle club romance, dark romance, friends to lover romance, suspense romance, MC romance, crime romance, mob romance, Military romance, romantic comedy, romantic suspense, mafia romance
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2018-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“It’s hard to wake from a nightmare, when the nightmare is real”

- Anonymous

Maria

I thrash, shaking violently from my sleep, jolting upright in the bed. Yet again, I’ve awaken from a nightmare starring the one and only Rafael Ramirez. Night after night I’m subjected to witnessing the same atrocious actions, all caused by the devil himself. Pain is asleep beside me and I swiftly get off the bed and exit my room. I walk out to the bar for my one saving grace – tequila.

I bend down and open up the cabinet, grab the neck of the bottle and unscrew the top, bringing it to my lips for a few long sips. It burns, landing heavy in my stomach, but the sting of the tequila is nothing like the sting of memories that refuse to stay buried. Memories that I no longer wish to remember. I don’t want to remember the sounds of my mother screaming as Rafael’s men stormed our house. Or the way that she begged Rafael not to take me and Camila, to take her instead. More importantly, I remember the look on my father’s face...how then I thought it was surprise...but now I know the truth. It wasn’t shock. It was expectation. He expected it to happen, and instead of getting us far away from Rafael’s grasps...he did nothing.

We were sitting ducks.

My mother was killed, my sister and I were taken and I can’t help but wonder...who should I be angry at? The man who pulled the trigger and ripped us out of our home, or the man who sat by and allowed it to happen. Where should my anger be directed towards? Who deserves all of my anger?

Some days my anger is all that I have, it’s all that I am. I’ve held onto it for years and I wonder if I will ever really be free of it. Finding out the truth, that my father...traded us for his own freedom only fuels the fire. It makes my blood boil and my skin burn with hatred. I never thought I could hate my father, but I also never thought that he could ever do something like this. Granted, the results of his actions could have been worse. I’m lucky. Lucky to have ended up here with the Skulls. But I lost my sister for so long, and I’ve only recently found out where she is. I don’t know when I’ll be able to see her again, wrap my hands around and hold her close, and that kills me. We have spent so long apart. I bet she’s changed so much over the years. If she hasn’t in her looks then I know she has emotionally. We were both very different girls when we were living at home in Mexico. We were sheltered from just how evil this world actually is. We had no idea, but and because of our father, we were quickly thrown into the depths of hell.

I look around the clubhouse, seeing Trick on the couch, staring right at me.

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