Savage: Rogue Demons MC, #1

By Sophia Gray

Savage is book 1 of the Rogue Demons MC trilogy. Books 2 and 3, Savage Taste and Savage Hunger are available everywhere now!

I'M A SAVAGE… AND I 'M NOT GONNA PLAY BY THE RULES.

What tastes sweeter:
Revenge, or the space between her thighs?

Lucky for me, I don't have to choose.
I can get both at once.

Because Clementine is the chink in my enemy's armor.
And by devouring her, I get to hit him where it hurts the most.

It's cute – she thinks I love her.
But she's nothing more than a toy to me.

At least, that's what I used to think.

But when I find myself doing whatever it takes to protect her, I start to wonder…
Is she more than just a toy after all?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sopris Page Press
• Release date: Nov 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386175575

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SAVAGE: Rogue Demons MC (Book 1)

By Sophia Gray

I’M A SAVAGE... AND I ‘M NOT GONNA PLAY BY THE RULES.

What tastes sweeter :

Revenge, or the space between her thighs?

Lucky for me, I don’t have to choose.

I can get both at once.

Because Clementine is the chink in my enemy’s armor.

And by devouring her, I get to hit him where it hurts the most.

It’s cute – she thinks I love her.

But she’s nothing more than a toy to me.

At least, that’s what I used to think.

But when I find myself doing whatever it takes to protect her, I start to wonder...

Is she more than just a toy after all?

Prologue

Falcon

Five Years Ago

Iknew something was wrong as soon as I saw the door to the pawnshop propped open. My gut sank before I even walked in on the scene. City Pawning was supposed to be neutral ground. No one was supposed to know Alan had been supplying Rogue Demons with firearms through the store. Then again, it had occurred to me that he was probably supplying weapons to several local organizations, which was why he didn’t advertise any allegiances on the street.

Sometimes it was obvious what was about to happen moments before it happened, despite what the plan was. In this case, the plan was to meet with Leo and come to an agreement that would benefit both of us. I should have known when he chose this spot specifically that he knew about Alan’s connection to us. Something told me he hadn’t really called me here for a meeting. The meeting was just a setup.

The windows along the front of the shop had thick iron bars over them that were built into the face of the building. They weren’t installed later over the windows. These were part of the original brick construction. The metal and glass door also had bars over it, but it was propped open by a set of shelves that had been knocked over during whatever had unfolded inside the store.

I pushed the door open a little farther so I could get in. It seemed heavier that night than it had before, as if it carried its own kind of dead weight. I stepped over a rack that had fallen over and started to walk down the middle aisle towards the sales counter.

Alan had several rows of display cases showing off the items he had for sale. He carried electronics from TVs and car stereos to video game consoles and computers. He sold jewelry, musical instruments, and anything else people would bring in that he could get a little bit of money for. The sales counter was where he did most of his high-end business, though.

The sales counter was another glass display case full of his most valuable jewelry. People were always pawning off jewelry. And on the wall behind it, he kept a display rack of guns. Of course, as part of his front for what he really did in the backroom, he kept meticulous records of everything he bought and sold through the pawnshop. Anything that ran through the back was untraceable. His suppliers were mysterious, nameless shadows of speculation, and his customers were anonymous figures who might as well not have existed.

Glass crunched under my feet as I walked past the smashed display cases in the front of the store. Their contents were spilled out all over the floor. DVD players and old VCRs, every video game console imaginable, car stereos, laptops, and so many things I couldn’t name were strewn across the store. He’d had a few large hunting knives on display in the front, as well, but I didn’t see those right away.

I pulled my gun out of the waistband of my jeans. By the time the night was over, I would wish I hadn’t brought my piece with me.

I didn’t speak as I crept around the empty, smashed sales counter. I knew if anyone had been waiting for me, they would have heard my footsteps on the glass out front, but my voice would have drowned out any sounds they made as they adZeked on me, so I refrained from calling out for Alan. Something told me he wasn’t going to be able to answer anyway. If the front of the shop was in this condition, I could only imagine what condition he was in.

I felt like such a fool for trusting Leo to act like he could have some respect for a fellow boss. The scene in the pawnshop made it very clear that this town wasn’t big enough for the both of us. Once I surveyed the damage and got back to HQ, the new plan was going to be to bring him down and make him pay for disrespecting Rogue Demons. He was also going to pay for what he did to our weapons supplier.

I looked around at the front counter. There were no signs of any jewelry left from the raid. The back wall was empty, which was no surprise. Anyone would have taken the guns. I wouldn’t have imagined that a single firearm would be left in the building, regardless of who had conducted the robbery.

I stepped through the dark doorway into the stockroom, where Alan kept anything that wasn’t going on the floor yet. I flipped the light switch to my right, and the room was filled with fluorescent light. It was empty. Leo had raided all of the boxes and bins he had kept full.

I kept my cool and remained quiet. I didn’t even breathe heavily. If it had been Rogue Demons doing this to Leo, we would have had someone waiting to ambush him. So far, I hadn’t seen any signs of anyone waiting for me, but I knew that only counted for so much.

I closed my eyes as I reached the door to the backroom. I imagined stepping in to find Leo and a few of his men holding Alan in a chair at the table as they waited for me to show up. I tested my grip on my trusty Glock 9mm. I didn’t know what waited for me on the other side of that door.

The light was already on when I spun around in the doorway with my arms extended, pointing the gun into the room. Leo and his men were not waiting for me. In fact, they’d left me a little present instead.

Alan sat in the chair across the little wooden table from me, slumped over with his head resting on the table. Except I knew he wasn’t just resting. I stepped around the table and saw the gunshot wound in his head.

Dammit, Alan, I said to the body in front of me. I’m sorry, man. I never should have agreed to meet Leo here.

I would have put money on the type of gun Leo and his men used to do Alan in. And I would have been right, because I was holding the same type of gun in my hand. My gut turned to ice in that moment. It was another of those moments when I knew what was coming before it came.

I backed out of the little back office where Alan handled his real business into the stockroom again. I slid my gun back into my waistband and started toward the front of the store. I knew some shit was about to go down, so I fished my phone out of my pocket to warn the guys Leo wasn’t coming for us. The law was.

As soon as I stepped out of the doorway to the stockroom and back into the front room, I saw the lights and heard the voices yelling at me as a couple of uniforms walked in with their guns drawn and aimed directly at me.

Police!

Stop right there!

Hands where I can see ’em!

Put the phone down!

Get down on your knees, punk!

I did as I was told. There was no use in fighting at that point. If there had been just one cop, I might have been able to make it out of there to find a way to put it all back on Leo, but there were at least four of them entering the room. I didn’t