Read Starting Over Online

Authors: Ryder Dane

Tags: #Fiction, #Romance, #Action & Adventure, #Contemporary, #Erotica, #New Adult

Starting Over

BOOK: Starting Over
3.5Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

Starting Over

Lucifer’s Breed

Book Three
by Ryder Dane

© Copyright August 2015 JK Publishing, Inc.

ISBN# 978-1-311-16317-2

All cover art and logo © Copyright August 2015 by JK Publishing, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Cover by Jess Buffett

Published by JK Publishing, Inc.

JK Publishing, Inc.

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

Smashwords Edition, License Notes
: This eBook is licensed for your personal

enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you

would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy

for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it or it was not

purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com, and purchase

your own copy.

Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents either are the

product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any

actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales are entirely coincidental.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted

by any means without the written permission of the author and publishing company.

Piracy
: Please always be aware of where you are purchasing your electronic books

and from whom. Only purchase from reputable, licensed individuals such as Amazon,

Barnes & Noble, iTunes, etc. If ever in doubt, let the author know of a suspected site

illegally selling their works—remember to include a link to the site where you have found

a book you suspect of being pirated. It only takes a moment of your time, but you will

forever have the gratitude of an author.

About the eBook Purchased
: Your purchase of this eBook allows you to only ONE

LEGAL copy for your own personal reading on your own personal computer or device.

You do not have resale or distribution rights without the prior written permission of both

the publisher and the copyright owner of this eBook. This eBook cannot be copied in

any format, sold, or otherwise transferred from your computer to another through upload

to a file sharing peer-to-peer program, free or for a fee, or as a prize in any contest.

Such action is illegal and in violation of the U.S. Copyright Law. Distribution of this

eBook, in whole or in part, online, offline, in print or in any way or any other method

currently known or yet to be invented, is forbidden. If you do not want this eBook

anymore, you must delete it from your computer.

WARNING
: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is

illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is

investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of

$250,000.

If you find any eBooks being sold or shared illegally, please contact the author or JK

Publishing, Inc. at [email protected].

JK Publishing, Inc.

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Epilogue

Books by Ryder Dane

Excerpt from Charlie’s Heart

Excerpt from Rain Falls

Excerpt from Her Wild Riders

Excerpt from Razor's Mark

JK Publishing, Inc.

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

Prologue

She finished spreading her brother’s ashes in the Missouri river. The tal wide

shouldered, hard as nails man she’d known was now gone, and in her heart was the

biggest void she’d never wanted to imagine. Tuck wouldn’t be there when she fucked

up, or became cornered by some well meaning bastard who wanted to change the

Dyke’s sexual orientation. She was on her own now, and she was still feeling the rage

at God for allowing the only one in the world she loved to be murdered by a damned

bunch of killers that even the cops were afraid to pull over on the highway.

As a toddler, her parents and brother spoiled her. She’d grown into a snaggletooth

first grade Princess when Tuck came to school to pick her up early one day. She’d

never seen her parents alive after that horrible day. The official cause of death was a

gas explosion in the house. Tuck had been blown out of the backdoor, or he wouldn’t

have lived to be there to pick her up, and tell her mommy and daddy were dead, and

with the angels now. He was barely eighteen years old himself, he could have left her

for the state to take, but he didn’t do that. He took her and left the area that day.

It wasn’t until she was eight and heard Tuck tel ing the man he worked for that their

parents had been killed by a man their father was going to testify against. Mr.

McCormick was an older gentleman who owned a bar in the middle of nowhere, outside

of a little town called Betwixt and Between. There wasn’t much to the town, a post

office, a general store, two gas stations, and a diner. Mr. McCormick helped Tuck claim

the insurance money from the house, and their father’s life insurance. At eighteen and

scared of his shadow, Tuck hadn’t even thought about such things as insurance claims.

At the time, all he was thinking was to get his little sister, and get the hell away from the

killer.

Tuck had seen the men that had kil ed their parents, and when she’d turned twenty-

one, he began his hunt for the bastards. She’d heard from him from time to time, and

even wrote things down he told her to remember for him, things like names and

numbers. Once in a while he would mention a few men that he liked, but increasingly in

the past few months, his calls were fewer and farther between.

From the day she began sprouting breasts, she was in disguise. Her hair was as

short as she could cut it, and she wore nothing but boys clothing at all times. Make-up

had never touched her smooth cheeks or eyes, and the only lipstick she could claim to

have used was lip balm. The bar patrons knew she was a girl, there was no hiding her

curves or voice. Letting them believe that she was more boy than girl was the only

protection she was able to use from amorous roughnecks, farmers, and drifters. Other

than the knives she kept in her engineer boots, and the 1911 she carried when she was

away from the bar. Her plain appearance was her best asset.

She hadn’t gone to school, Tuck and the old man had taught her Math, English, and

Science, to the best of their limited abilities. They lived so far outside of any town with a

school that she would have been home schooled anyway.

The old man had passed away three months ago. He hadn’t told her he had

prostate cancer until he was too weak to get out of bed one day. She knew he wasn’t

feeling well, and had taken him to his doctor every other week or so for quite some time

JK Publishing, Inc.

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

now. She got him into the old Studebaker truck he loved so much, and driven the eighty

miles to the hospital. He hadn’t been back at home two days before she found him

dead in his room. He’d taken the entire bottle of pain medication, and downed a bottle

of whiskey to wash the pills down.

Last week, she’d gotten an anonymous phone cal telling her to pick up Tuck. It

was dark and raining by the time she got to Lindell. She drove up to a deserted garage,

and put the truck in park. A black van pulled in behind her and two men got out of the

van. They went to the back and she could see them carrying what appeared to be a

body, wrapped in plastic bags. Their burden was heaved into the bed of her truck, and

the men got back into the van and left. Once they were out of sight, she jumped from

the truck and ran to the open tailgate, climbing into the bed. She took the knife from her

boot and sliced the plastic from boots to his neck, crying all the while. She pulled the

plastic from his head and lost her mind in those few seconds it took her to recognize her

brother’s face in the light from her Maglite. She’d known when she answered the

phone, but had hoped that it would turn out to be a mistake.

The police had no leads, or so they said anyway. She knew who Tuck’s kil er was,

and from the research she had done and was continuing to do, she knew the man was

the same one who had murdered her parents.

Her plan wasn’t solid yet, but the son-of-a-bitch would pay, and she would bathe in

his blood if she got the chance. She had a few things to do first, and if there was one

thing she was good at, it was planning. She had some skills to perfect, and a few

arrangements to be made. Once she was gone, she didn’t plan to return, but you never

knew what life or death would bring about. “Hope for the best but expect the worst.”

JK Publishing, Inc.

Starting Over by Ryder Dane

Chapter One

Eighteen months later…

War was frustrated. He was disgusted by the shit and politics that came with being

BOOK: Starting Over
3.5Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Riccardo by Elle Raven, Aimie Jennison
Baby's First Homecoming by McDavid, Cathy
Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Heartbreak Cake by Cindy Arora
Shadowspell by Jenna Black
SPYWARE BOOK by Larson, B. V.
Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King
Antebellum BK 1 by Jeffry S.Hepple