DANEMy office smelled like a by the hour motel—cigarette smoke and stale beer. It was tough using the garage as both a business and club house, hopefully it wouldn’t be too long and we’d have a separate place for my boys to kick back and relax. I’d only been back for a few days, and already I had that itch to get back out there searching again. I’d been over the letter she left too many times to count, and still nothing jumped out.I wanted the distraction and coming into work was just what I needed to take my mind off things. I had weeks of catching up to do. As much as I loved Madden, his eye for detail when it came to business was severely lacking. The weeks I’d spent chasing her arse around the state had left me with a mountain to climb back home. The club side of things my right hand could handle, but the shop—the front for our club, well it was suffice to say Madden knew nothing.The final finishes were due to be wrapped up within the next week. Everything kind of fell into pl

TEL’ANNAS“So it’s all set, you’ve secured the location?” I’d been on the phone to Shay for the last hour, hashing out the last details of my plan. We’d finally secured a safe location to take Alexander.“Yes Tel’annas, I had the dummy corp set it up, changeover happens tomorrow and it will take the crew a week to fit it out for what you need. The warehouse went into foreclosure months ago, we will have the basement set up with holding cells just needed to finalize what to do with the rest of the building.” Shay informed me she'd been my financial advisor for the last year and a half. Having no connections with the rest of my family I felt it safe to involve her in this side of the plan.“Appreciate that Shay, what has your research on the area shown?” I asked as I walked into my dingy hotel room. The faint scent of stale smoke, sweat and dampness hit me immediately and made my stomach roll. Even after being here for the last few weeks, it still wasn’t easy to overcome. “If we can tu

TEL’ANNAS“Paige, I have some new information on the Ducane’s activities,” Cian said as he rushed through the door of my hotel room and plopped down on the edge of my bed. “Ghost says they are getting ready to start giving the girls away as prizes. Both Max and Alex have been seen meeting with the owners of the Lion’s Den over the last week, there is some sort of tournament coming up where the winner takes all, there’s a huge pot, fifty thousand in cash and what they refer to as a kitten.”Hearing that word out of Cian’s mouth sent shivers down my spine, and not the good kind. It took me back to Southport where my best friend was, and reminded me of everything she had gone through. Despite not being there when it first happened, I’d been present for the aftermath and it wasn’t pretty, when she finally felt comfortable enough to open up, the one thing she kept saying was they always called her Kitten.We had two hours before Cian and I had to meet the others and I needed to be on my g

DANEThe sun was high in the sky as Madden and I rolled into Claymore. The city was in the grips of revitalisation, new developments marked its outskirts, it was just a few years behind Southport, but there was no doubt the town council was trying to improve their image. Old buildings were either getting modern facelifts or torn down completely. As we pulled into the Weavers Hotel, we noticed a group of people arguing amongst each other.“They look like the group that was in the picture with Tel’annas,” Madden noted as he jumped off his bike. Taking a closer look, he was right but with one notable absence—Tel’annas. An uneasy feeling started to settle, something wasn’t right here. “I’ll go check us in, you head over and find out what that’s all about, give ‘em the heads up before you go see the Princess.”I gave him a look, what the hell was he thinking giving me orders, he may be my VP but hell he was stating the obvious here. As I pulled closer to the group bits and pieces of their

DANEThe Lion’s Den seemed to be at the center of everything. I’d sent Madden and Cian out to find out what they could about the new owners of the damn club. Laoise and Tiernan were tasked with trying to track down the girl from last night and I was here waiting for the rest of my guys to arrive.I was growing restless with the lack of information so far. As much as I wanted to trust Cian to let his guy handle the hunt for what we needed to know, I couldn’t. I wanted my own guy on it too, I needed something concrete for when I made the call to Stryker. It wouldn’t do the current deal I was brokering with them any good, if they found out I was keeping this from them and I didn’t trust any of these Irish not to run back to Lennox Senior if it meant getting back into his good graces.“Dane,” Jonah answered before the phone even had a chance to ring. He sounded wary.“Is everything okay Jonah?” I asked, I needed his full attention. I couldn't have him distracted.“Yeah, everything is fin