Wrapped in Chains - Nicola Jane
Acknowledgments
I’m so excited to bring you Wrapped in Chains. This is the third book in the Kings Reapers MC and I hope you love it just as much as the first two.
Special thanks to my amazing friends and family. As usual, you support, love, and encourage, and with you lot by my side, I’ve got this! And also to the friends I haven’t met yet but continue to offer me virtual support by reading through my books and sharing editing duties—Jennie Eickoff, I’m talking to you.
Thanks, Rebecca, you’ve stuck around to edit book three and I’m so grateful. I’m learning so much from you and I’m trying hard to break the bad habits I’ve picked up so I can make your job easier.
Knox Publishing, thank you for helping me to pursue my dreams of becoming an author. I love it and I love being a part of the Knox family.
Playlist
Before Love Came to Kill Us - Jessie Reyez
I Hate Falling in Love - Kaya Stewart
One Too Many - Keith Urban (ft. Pink)
i wasn’t enough for you - Hollyn
Big Girls Don’t Cry - Fergie
Blame - Grace Carter & Jacob Banks
Falling - Harry Styles
Circles - Post Malone
Sight of You - Tulisa
She’s Not Me - Zara Larsson
Hard For Me - Michele Morrone
Always - Bon Jovi
The Heart Wants What It Wants - Selena Gomez
Goodbyes - Post Malone
Animals - Maroon 5
Pony - Ginuwine
Chapter One
Leia
I hand Star another tissue and she continues to sob into it. She turned up at the club twenty minutes ago and hasn’t stopped crying since. I wait patiently. After all, I’m the friend they all come to when they get dumped or have other boy issues. I’ve never understood why—it’s not like I have any experience with the opposite sex. My older brother, Riggs, sees to that.
“Everything good with you and Colin?” I ask tentatively and another round of sobs escapes her. I guess she’s had a fight with her boyfriend.
Chains saunters over and I roll my eyes. Even his swagger pisses me off. I know before he’s opened his mouth that he’s going to hit on Star. He can’t help himself.
“I hate to see a girl cry,” he says, placing a shot of something strong in front of her. “This’ll help.”
“She’s fine,” I snap, moving the shot glass away from her.
“She doesn’t look fine. Tell me you’re not crying over a man, gorgeous,” he sighs, pulling up a stool and joining us. Star stops blubbering and wipes her eyes. She blinks her long lashes at him and her pouty lips glisten from her perfectly applied lip gloss.
“I’m Star,” she says in a tone that’s husky from all the crying.
Chains holds out his large, tattooed hand. “Chains. Pleased to meet yah.”
“My boyfriend, he’s been cheating on me,” she sniffles. I’ve been comforting her for the last half hour yet she confesses all to a sex pest biker.
“Baby, what kind of ass would cheat on a fine girl like you?” he asks, sounding outraged.
I roll my eyes again. He’s so cheesy, it makes me sick. “Remember, there are rules,” I remind him, but he barely glances in my direction before taking Star’s hand and holding it in his own.
“I can help you forget that piece of shit,” he continues.
“Chains,” I say, my tone warning because he knows he can’t go there with Star. I have rules. None of the members of the Kings Reapers can get with my friends.
“Really?” asks Star. Her cheeks pink slightly, which only adds to her beauty.
“She’s nineteen,” I interject and Chains scowls at me. He’s twenty-nine, old enough to know better than to fuck one of my friends.
“Age is just a number,” flirts Star. Colin’s soon forgotten.
Chains grins wide and holds out his hand. She takes it and he leads her out the club bar towards his room. I shake my head. It’s not like Star’s a close friend. She’s in my circle, but I’m pretty sure she only turned up here because her best friend, Courtney, was busy.
My brother, Riggs, joins me. “You look pissed,” he observes.
“Chains took my friend to his room,” I say and he cringes.
“He’s like a dog in heat lately. You think he’s going through somethin’ I don’t know about?” he asks thoughtfully.
“No, Riggs, I think he’s just a horny ass. Star can take care of herself, but he broke my rule. He’ll have to pay.” Riggs grins. “Lake is on a job for a week. I could place Chains on watch duty? You know he hates that.”
I smile evilly. Riggs always has