Carson's Grasp: An MC Romance: Satan's Ravens MC, #2

By Kathryn Thomas

Carson's Grasp is book 2 of the Satan's Ravens MC trilogy. Book 3, Carson's Promise, is available everywhere now!

CARSON WON'T REST UNTIL HE HAS ME BENT OVER.

He's a violent man.
And he's here on a violent mission.
If I want my family to live…
I have to give him all of me.

There was no hiding from him.
Once his eyes landed on me…
That was the end of it.

No running.
No avoiding what was to come.

And when it came –
When HE came –
It was as brutal and rough as his reputation.

He took everything he wanted from me.
And the craziest part was…
That I didn't want it to end.

Carson didn't come here to help me.
But now that he's had a taste,
He sure as hell isn't going to leave without me.

I belong to him now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBook Publishing World
• Release date: Jul 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386518068

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Carson’s Grasp: A Bad Boy Motorcycle Club Romance (Satan’s Ravens MC) (Book 2)

By Kathryn Thomas

CARSON WON’T REST UNTIL HE HAS ME BENT OVER.

HE’S A VIOLENT MAN.

And he’s here on a violent mission.

If I want my family to live...

I have to give him all of me.

There was no hiding from him.

Once his eyes landed on me...

That was the end of it.

No running.

No avoiding what was to come.

And when it came –

When HE came –

It was as brutal and rough as his reputation.

He took everything he wanted from me.

And the craziest part was...

That I didn’t want it to end.

Carson didn’t come here to help me.

But now that he’s had a taste,

He sure as hell isn’t going to leave without me.

I belong to him now.

Chapter One

How could someone be your heaven and your hell?

Kelli Picerno lay on her side and watched the man who she’d been hiding out with for the last week. His jet black hair had grown out longer than she’d seen it, but that was to be expected. They were on the outskirts of town living in a beautiful cabin like they were on the run. There was a reason for that. They were on the run from seemingly everyone.

She’d met the sexy Carson Hale at a dive bar where he was trying to find information about where to find the mark he’d been sent to kill. Little did she know he was there to kill her favorite cousin Argo, and little did he know she was the only daughter of the city’s largest organized crime boss. Since she’d met him, it was like she was in a constant state of what the fuck. Sometimes it was wonder, amazement, disbelief, or a varied amount of other things that made her feel this way. They had a deep connection, and it was one that she hadn’t ever found with another person.

Unfortunately, she’d acted irrationally when she heard from her controlling father that he was going to kill him and pushed the head of the organized underworld down in front of her cousin and many of his followers. She was able to save Carson, but she didn’t know for how long, and she didn’t know what her punishment would be for her part of what her father would call betrayal of the family for a stranger.

You know I can feel you staring at me, he muttered in his deep sleepy voice. Have mercy. The man sounded like her favorite treat deep, dark and chocolate, and it made her want to slide her fingers into her panties immediately.

She’d heard before that your body can feel someone watching it even when they slept, but she didn’t believe it before now. I stare at you all the time, and you never notice.

I notice. I just don’t say anything about it because I think it’s hot as hell, but you’ve been doing it for quite a while. So I thought I’d let you know so you can either tell me what’s on your mind or I can occupy your time since you have nothing better to do than to stare at me. He opened his eyes, and his clear green gaze scanned her face as if he were looking for the answers there. What’s the problem?

I don’t know, Carson. Could it be that we are hiding out from who knows how many groups? Doesn’t that bother you? How the hell is this going to end? She wasn’t actively trying to wake him up to talk to him, but now that he asked her, she did have a lot of things on her mind.

He sat up on his elbow and turned toward her. There is a lot going on in that mind of yours. Know that I have a few things in the works for how to get both of us out of this.

Do these plans include us walking on our own two feet and being a part of the land of the living? She wasn’t trying to be a smart ass, but they were both living here in la-la land on borrowed time and money, and the real world was just outside that door.

That is the plan. I want us both to get out of this alive. He looked so sincere, and she had to give it to him. This man could wake up and have a decent conversation. She didn’t know if someone had awakened her out of a deep sleep if she’d have much more than grunts from her.

What about my cousin, Argo? If you were hired to kill him, then won’t there be some repercussions from that? She was getting herself all worked up about this, but it didn’t seem like he worried at all. The man had been hired to kill her cousin... her freaking favorite cousin, and here she lay in the bed with him. Her father would call it sleeping with the enemy, but she had to believe that Carson was going to make sure everything was going to be okay.

I’m working on it and hoping that we can be out of here within the week. He gathered her into his arms and rolled onto his back pulling her on top of him. Warm and fragrant, she was filled with the beauty of being in the bed with a man who filled her spirit as well as her sexual needs.

She knew that he was having lots of conversations with people off and on throughout the day. The talks he’d been having were quiet and personal. Growing up with a mafia father had taught her not to ask many questions, but she wasn’t a kid anymore, and Carson wasn’t her father so her need to have answers grew with each phone call. They had bought throw away phones since she’d had to ditch hers while she was trying to save his life when her father found out that her new boyfriend was trying to kill his first in command who was also his nephew.

Argo won’t be killed. Right? She picked her head off his chest to see his face when he answered that question. It had been difficult listening to the real reason he’d fallen into her life, and it was something she was still working through. Her father could order someone’s death as easily as people ordered a pepperoni pizza, heavy on the sauce and light on the mozzarella. Kelli didn’t like violence and had tried her whole life to stay away from it, but she’d practically fallen for this beautiful man within days, and after listen to him tell her his life story, it appeared she’d been vigilant for nothing. This man was as dangerous as they came.

I’m trying to get that whole deal resolved. He looked her in the eye when he said those words so she wanted to believe that he was telling her the truth, but did she really know? When working with criminals, no one knows 100%.

I don’t know what I would do if someone killed Argo. He’s more like a brother to me than my brothers are. He was one of the only ones who ever tried to understand that I was different from most of the people the family who just went along with the mob lifestyle. He stood up for me and helped me get the life I wanted. She looked over to see if Carson could hear what she was trying to say about her cousin Argo and was relieved when she watched the remorse fill his eyes. It would have to be enough that he understood what was going on with her and how important Argo and his survival was to her. That man had fought tooth and nail to get permission for her to move out of her family’s home and for her father to set up that boutique for her. Argo was the second in command, but her father looked up to him more than anyone else, so when she had Argo’s ear, she knew she also had her fathers.

The room was filled with regrets and tension that the conversation and their situation had brought about. After spilling so much of her guts before breakfast, she felt like she was wilted. There was nothing else to say to express how important it was to her that her life remain Argo-filled, but she wondered how much a man like Carson could actually do. He didn’t seem to be in a