Mayhem (Book 2): Vipers MC, #2

By Heather West

This is book 2 of the Vipers MC trilogy. Book 3 is available everywhere now!

Loving her is savage mayhem.

She tore my heart to pieces.

And now she needs my help.

But when I find out what she's hidden from me, my rage knows no bounds.

Will I punish her for her sins, or keep her safe from our enemies?

ELI

My ex-wife left my heart in burning shreds.

I had to find out from a letter that she was leaving me.

She was too much of a coward to even tell me to my face.

But fate has a cruel sense of humor.

And seven years later, when I rescue a woman from a brutal destiny…

It's her.

She's just as gorgeous as I remember her.

Smooth curves and dark brown hair.

Creamy skin and lips like sin.

I can't decide what I crave more:

To claim her or to break her.

I shouldn't want this. She left me in the dust.

But my mortal enemy wants her blood.

She needs my help.

Only I can protect her.

But Tori has been hiding secrets from me, and now, they threaten to ruin everything.

F**k it all.

I'll kill everyone in the world if I have to.

I'm not losing my woman again.

TORI

Leaving Eli nearly destroyed me.

But I had no choice.

Seven years after I threw away the love of my life, he somehow finds me again.

Just when I need him, the man I've always loved grabbed me from the jaws of death.

Eli is an enigma, chaos personified.

Both sweet and savage, kind and cruel.

My angel. My demon. My savior. My doom.

But my body still longs for his, and I can't help but give in to his touch.

It's everything I remember and more.

There's no time to relax, though.

The killers on my trail are threatening to ruin my rediscovered paradise.

Eli says he'll keep me safe from them.

He says, this time around, he won't let me go again.

But he doesn't know about the secrets I've been hiding from him.

And if he finds out what I've done…

I might lose everything once more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sopris Page Press
• Release date: Jun 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393373568

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Mayhem: A Motorcycle Club Romance (Vipers MC) (Book 2)

By Heather West

Loving her is savage mayhem.

SHE TORE MY HEART TO pieces.

And now she needs my help.

But when I find out what she’s hidden from me, my rage knows no bounds.

Will I punish her for her sins, or keep her safe from our enemies?

ELI

My ex-wife left my heart in burning shreds.

I had to find out from a letter that she was leaving me.

She was too much of a coward to even tell me to my face.

But fate has a cruel sense of humor.

And seven years later, when I rescue a woman from a brutal destiny...

It’s her.

She’s just as gorgeous as I remember her.

Smooth curves and dark brown hair.

Creamy skin and lips like sin.

I can’t decide what I crave more:

To claim her or to break her.

I shouldn’t want this. She left me in the dust.

But my mortal enemy wants her blood.

She needs my help.

Only I can protect her.

But Tori has been hiding secrets from me, and now, they threaten to ruin everything.

F**k it all.

I’ll kill everyone in the world if I have to.

I’m not losing my woman again.

TORI

Leaving Eli nearly destroyed me.

But I had no choice.

Seven years after I threw away the love of my life, he somehow finds me again.

Just when I need him, the man I’ve always loved grabbed me from the jaws of death.

Eli is an enigma, chaos personified.

Both sweet and savage, kind and cruel.

My angel. My demon. My savior. My doom.

But my body still longs for his, and I can’t help but give in to his touch.

It’s everything I remember and more.

There’s no time to relax, though.

The killers on my trail are threatening to ruin my rediscovered paradise.

Eli says he’ll keep me safe from them.

He says, this time around, he won’t let me go again.

But he doesn’t know about the secrets I’ve been hiding from him.

And if he finds out what I’ve done...

I might lose everything once more.

Chapter One

Eli

Iwanted to kill her . I couldn’t be anywhere near her. She was a stranger to me—somebody who would lie to me that way. For seven years, she knew she had my son. I wasn’t worth talking to about it. I didn’t deserve to know I had a kid out there.

I pushed off the wall and backed away. Everything was a lie. The last seven years. Just when I thought she was out of my life, I found out she had a tie to me the entire time. I was too furious to speak.

She stood there, watching me. Say something, please.

I shook my head. I couldn’t. She didn’t wanna hear anything I had to say, anyway.

My son. My blood. She kept him from me.

You need to calm down. He’s right next door. I don’t want you to scare him. Got it? I didn’t answer, but I did walk to the other side of the room. I had to put as much space between us as I could. I leaned against the wall, pounding my hands on it every once in a while.

I mean it, Eli. Calm down, or get out of here. I won’t have you scaring my son.

Our son. I hissed it. Her eyes went wide, then she looked away. She was right, though. I had to keep myself under control. He might know one day that he was mine—I didn’t want his first memories of me to be of me losing my shit on his mother.

How? I muttered. It was all I could say. My fists were clenched, my heart pounded like a runaway train. I saw a picture of them on the table by the bed, and there he was. Right in front of my face. He looked just like me, like a little clone. How could she look at somebody who looked like me for seven years and not even care? Didn’t she think she should tell me? That I deserved to know?

It was all a mess in my head. I couldn’t make sense out of it. How? I asked again.

How what?

How could you? I stared at her. She wouldn’t look at me. I watched her wrap her arms around herself, rubbing her biceps like it was cold in there. I was sweating, on fire.

I didn’t know what to do.

So you left? And you were pregnant? Every word made the rage even more real. It rose in me until it just about choked me. I couldn’t see straight.

Yes. Okay? Yes. Obviously. Her voice got sharp, nasty.

No. You don’t get to do that. I pointed a finger in her face. Don’t get an attitude with me.

Why the hell not? The criminal, getting in my face, asking why I did what I did. I did what I thought was right, Eli. The only thing I could do.

Leaving your husband? Lying about a baby? Hiding him, yourself? That’s what you thought was right? Who the hell are you Tori?

A mother. She spat the words, then pushed her way past me and sat on the bed. She glared up at me. When I found out I was pregnant, I had to make a choice. I had to protect my baby.

From whom?

From you, Eli. And your buddies. The club. I had to keep my baby away from that mess.

Oh, please. I threw my arms up in the air. Gimme a break. You sit there and act like we were monsters.

Right then? You were. You know it. You don’t have the courage to admit it to yourself.

Yeah. It’s so easy to sit here all these years later and say that. But you know one thing I never did? I never ran out on you. I never betrayed you. I was nothing but faithful to you from the day we got together. I would’ve done anything, anything at all for you. All you had to do was ask.

You wouldn’t have listened.

You never tried! I laughed bitterly. You didn’t give me a chance. I could’ve stepped up. I would have. If you didn’t think I was, why the hell did you marry me, Tori?

She looked away. I could tell she was determined to see things the way she wanted to see them. She wasn’t gonna budge. I wanted to roar—the only thing that stopped me was knowing the kid was next door. She made a fool of me. She lied to me and made a fool of me. Nobody got away with that.

You never would’ve let me go, Eli. You know it. Not if I told you.

Why would I have? You were my wife, pregnant with my kid. Why would I let you go?

Exactly. You weren’t man enough then, and you’re not man enough now.

What the fuck does any of this have to do with being man enough?

Sometimes you have to let people do what they need to do, Eli, even if it’s not what you want. If I had come to you and told you I couldn’t be with you, that I needed to leave, you wouldn’t have let me. You would have forced me to stay under lock and key if need be—anything to keep a grip on what you thought was yours. Isn’t that right?

Thought was mine? Thought? It took everything I had in me to keep my voice down. You were mine. You were my wife.

"That didn’t make me your property. You never got it. I was still myself, my