Her Prince: The Wounded Souls, #6
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I had secrets that were drowning me, and my worst fear was he was going to get tired of waiting for me to put my big girl panties on and reveal the biggest one.
Him.
Shiloh
My life started out with a tragedy—the death of my mother.
But I had something no other infant had, six amazing men. My father and his brothers in arms raised me and gave me the best life any kid could ask for.
I grew up in the loving arms of the Wounded Souls, and each and every one of them protected and loved me beyond measure. Even when I lost two of the most important people in my life, the Souls never let me fall.
After Dad met and married the best woman I had the pleasure of knowing, she and her flock, also wonderful women, gave me the feminine balance I needed in a life of soldiers turned bikers. They taught me to rise to every challenge and always be true to myself.
Somewhere, I lost sight of that on the way to my aspirations to make my mark.
Falling in love with a man who would die for me, adored me, and would do anything for me, should have been the happiest time of my life. So why was I hiding him?
Could I really have it all? Or would my obsession with being everything and having it all mean I would lose the one person who meant everything?
Then there was my ghost. Having him and his promise not to leave me was both a blessing and a curse. He knew all my secrets, and he also knew how to press my buttons.
The danger of Rogue is a distant memory, and the kids of the Wounded Souls are all grown up. The club princess has big dreams and even bigger secrets. Will she keep her dreams alive and keep the love of her prince?
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Her Prince - Leah Sharelle
WOUNDED SOULS MC
Her Prince
LEAH SHARELLE
Copyright © 2019 Leah Sharelle
Her Prince (Wounded Souls MC Series – Book 7)
By Leah Sharelle
All Rights Reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-19258742206
Colleen Snibson, Chief Literary Editor
Rogena Mitchell-Jones, Literary Editor
Two Red Pens Editing www.tworedpens.com
Photography: Lindee Robinson Photography
Cover Design: Christy Van Elsen
Cover Art: MLJ Quigg
Cover Models. Nick and Julianne
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead is coincidental and not intended by the author.
This author writes in both American English and Australian English and may include Australian diction.
This is for the hearts I broke in His Angel.
Darth was a huge part of my life, so did you really think I would forget about him? He promised Shiloh he would always be there for her, and Darth never breaks his promises.
Contents
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Part One
Shiloh
AGE 4
I’s could hear Mummy and Daddy whispering. Mummy had wet eyes, and Daddy looked like he does when Mummy goes off wifout telling him.
Fordy talked to Daddy at brekkie, and they was looking at me, but I’s don’t know what he said. Maybe Fordy’s ’puter was broked or something ’cause he looked worried. I’s hoped he hadn’t done anything bad to my C.O.D. game—I’s would kick his butt if he did. I was proud I didn’t say the bad word for butt. Mummy said my swearing was getting better. I hadn’t put any of my pocket money in the jar for two days ’cept for that one time yesterday when Bastian gots into my toy box and dribbled all over my G.I. Joe dolls. For a little brudder, Bast is the coolest, but he deserved to be called a wanker. Mummy just didn’t understand.
I’s reckon I’s in trouble again, big man,
I said to Darf, who was sitting on the couch next to me. I lubbed spending time with him. He was my favourite person other than Daddy and Mummy, and Unca Vinnie and Blondie, and pretty boy and Miss Mia. Oh, and lady dancer and Unca Manny, Unca Creed—who smiled all the time now—and Aunty Memph, oh yeah, and Fordy and his man, Lucky. I lubbed all of my daddy’s Souls, and they lubbed me ’cause I’s the club princess, after all. But I’s got some trouble comin’ wif Manny’s twins and pretty boy’s little girl Meagan.
Darf, will I always be the princess of da Wounded Souls.
I turned and asked Darf.
You will always be the first princess, baby girl. And always my princess, okay?
I looked over at the grown-ups again. They were all still gawkin’ at me, and I’s didn’t understand why, buts my belly had a funny feelin’ in it, and not a good feelin’ like when Mummy and me dance. It was like that time when Unca Steel tolds me that Bullet went to heaven. That kinda bad tummy feelin.
Darf, whats if the doctor Mummy and Daddy make me go see tells me I hafs to stop talkin’ to ya?
The silly lady made me sit in a room on a really big beanbag—well, that was cool, and it had pictures of Elsa from Frozen on it, but the rest was stupid. She said dumb things about what was going on in my brain and stuff. Didn’t she know she was taking up lots of my time? I’s gots things to do and games to play, and I’s really wanted to ride my Harley.
Not happening, kiddo. Believe me, I’m not going away until you tell me, sweetheart.
I smiled real big, ’cause I’s was happy. Being wif Darf made me happy, and being wif my dogs and cat made me happy, too. Being wif Darf and my dogs and watching Zeke all at the same time made me extra big happy.
Wanna go watch Zeke?
You betcha, Squirt.
Part Two
Shiloh
AGE 10
I was so mad I could just spit! How was this my fault?
Did I make Evie and Lacie climb the roof of the bike shed? No, I didn’t.
And did I make Meagan follow me to the park where I could try out my new stunt? No, I didn’t. She asked to come. First, I said no because Meagan was a bit of a girlie girl. She liked to dress in pretty dresses and always had her hair done up with ribbons.
Gag me. Ribbons are for babies,
I mumbled aloud but not loud enough for Mummy to hear me. She looked kinda crazy when Uncle Steel and Daddy brought us back from the park. Her eyes were all teary, and she was shaking when she hugged me.
She was worried, Squirt. You took off without telling anyone where you were going. Again. And this time, you took little Meagan with you. She is only six, baby girl, and her parents were frantic when they discovered you were both gone from the compound.
I rolled my eyes. Hell’s bells, I’m ten years old, and I wasn’t alone. You were with me. Nothing is gonna happen to me when you are there, Darf,
I scoffed. For six years, Darth, though I still call him Darf—the childhood name I had for him—had been my constant companion. No one else could see him, only me. He made a promise to never leave me, and so far, he hadn’t. I don’t know why when Darth was killed all those years ago at the dance school that he had come back to me, but I am glad he did. Darth saw me through my first day of school and every day since. He was my best friend. My second best friend was Lacie, Manny and Rainn’s daughter. Her twin sister Evie was cool, too, but she got along better with Meagan because they both liked dolls and crap.
Shiloh, I am serious. Don’t go off without telling your dad or Booth or any of the patches. You remember that day at the park with you and Teach.
Yeah, yeah, I remember. Geez, Darf, that was ages ago. Ain’t nothing like that gonna happen again,
I grumbled, but the memory of that day was still in my mind sometimes. That was when a crazy man was after Daddy and the other Souls. He couldn’t get at my dad, so he came after me and my mum, Charlotte. She wasn’t my mum at the time. My real mum died when she gave birth to me. I never met her, so being sad about that was sorta weird. I had her name for my middle name, and Uncle Jason talked about her all the time because he used to be married to her. I know, right? Confusing. My dad and birth mum were not together when she got pregnant with me, and she ended up being my uncle’s girlfriend. Daddy didn’t cheat or nothin’. They weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend. Just friends with benefits—whatever that meant. I heard Dad say it once when he was talkin’ with Vinnie.
Promise me you won’t do it again. And, while we are at it, no more climbing roofs. Jesus, kiddo, you nearly gave me a heart attack when your foot fell through that rotten shingle.
I was fine, big fella. If Evie hadn’t screamed and got Steel’s attention, I would have gotten down all by myself,
I said with confidence.
It wasn’t like I didn’t know what I was doing. I mean, come on, that wasn’t my first rodeo. Climbing things were my speciality—and Zander’s, too, who was Creed’s oldest son. He was one of my closest friends and partner in crime when it came to getting into trouble. For a six-year-old, he looked more like a ten-year-old. He had no fear, which I think came from Aunty Memphis.
You see, Aunty Memphis has always taught her kids that they can do anything if they try hard enough. Memph can’t see, and I mean nothing at all, but she doesn’t let being blind stop her. She writes lady-love books, whatever they are. And she owns a bookstore here in town. I love going there to read. She has this really cool reading spot with beanbags and those swinging bed things. Darf and I spend a lot of time reading together as I learned to read bigger books—bigger ones than I read at school.
Shiloh, I will not read with you next time we go to Memphis’s bookstore if you don’t promise me right now.
Oh, boy, Darth was using his growly voice again. That meant he was angry as hell with me, and I didn’t like it when he got mad. Last time, he didn’t let me read for two whole days. I guess it was my fault that time, but damn, it was so much fun hanging from the swing set by one of Uncle Creed’s ropes. I tied it around my waist and swung off the ground just like that dude in Mission Impossible did. Zander had helped. He pulled on the rope until I was way high in the air, then he tied it to a pole so that I was suspended off the ground. Well, it was fun until our dads found us and went nuts. My belly hurt for a few days after that, but it had been worth it, well, until Darth went nuts at me, too. Geez, I was always getting into trouble.
All right, all right, keep ya pants on, Vader. No more trouble, I promise.
It didn’t count as a lie if my fingers were crossed, right?
Yeah, that will be the day.
I laughed at the grumble from Darth. He knew me well. I looked over at my dad, who was coming toward me with a drink in one hand and a sandwich in the other. Oh, cool, I’m starving.
Hey, Dad,
I said in my sweetest voice, which had Darth letting out a deep chuckle beside me.
"Don’t hey me, young lady. What you did yesterday and today will not happen again, understand me? Bloody hell, Shiloh, you are giving me grey hairs, and you are only ten. I’m not looking forward to seeing what you get up to when you are sixteen!" My dad pushed his fingers through his short hair, which did look a little grey in some places. Dad was somewhere in his forties, but you really wouldn’t know it. He was still fit and muscled like he had been when I was a little girl, and he was still the SAA for the Wounded Souls. Mum was always touching his arms, and when she did, she would make this funny breathing sound, which made Dad look at her really strange like, and it often led to them doing icky kissing. They were always kissing.
I was about to say sorry when Darth whispered something in my ear, making me laugh.
It’s not funny, Squirt. You could have been seriously hurt up on that roof, and don’t get me started on the excursion to the playground.
I wasn’t laughing at you, Daddy. Darf said to tell you that you hardly have any hair to go grey,
I repeated the joke. Everyone pretty much accepted that I talked with Darth. In the beginning, my parents were really spooked by it, and so were all my uncles. Except for Vinnie, who had believed me from the start. I had worried that I was going to have to stop when Dad took me to a doctor lady, who told me Darth was just in my imagination. Something about me coping with all the bad things I’d seen and what happened to me when I was four. But Darth helped me convince everyone that he was real. One day, when I was I five, I was in the war room, and Darth told me something only the patched guys knew, and once I repeated to them what Darth told me, they believed. At first, they were a bit quiet and didn’t say much, then Vinnie stood up and said he believed me. After that, everyone pretty much left me alone, and no one stared at me when they saw me talking to Darth. They couldn’t see him ’cause only I could do that. Now and then, Darth and I liked to freak them out—like now.
Tell Darth he can suck my—
Deck Johnston, finish that sentence, and you will be sleeping on the couch tonight,
my mum said in a stern voice. She was behind Dad, a plate of Aunty Stella’s caramel slice in her hands.
Score!
Sweetness, you couldn’t go one night without my body wrapped around you,
Dad said in his growly voice, but he had a smile on his face that was only for my mum, and she had one just for him, too. Even though their kissing made me want to puke, I was happy they loved each other so much. Mum was the best, and she loved me like I was her own daughter. Even after my brother Bastian was born, she never left me out or made me feel like he was more important. She loved us both just the same.
Hmm, I really must do something about that ego of yours, soldier man.
Mum giggled when Dad pulled her into his arms, nearly squashing my dessert.
Later, Sweetness, you can do anything you want to me.
Ewww, really, Dad? Can’t you control yourself? My ears are bleeding,
I complained because... just ewww.
One day, sweet girl, the right boy will come along, and you will want him to talk that way to you. I could hear the sadness in Darth’s voice, and I knew he was thinking of Vegas. When he thought about her, he sometimes went away for a while—not long, just a few hours. He never told me where he went off to, but I hoped it was to see Ve-Ve.
I thought about what Darth had just said. Did I want a boy to look at me like Dad looked at Mum? Ah, no. Hell no! I didn’t have time for that rubbish. I had plans. First becoming a mechanic, then the army and sniper training, and then I was going to be the president of the Wounded Souls. I already told Vinnie of my plans. He had this soft smile on his face but didn’t say anything. He just smiled at me, kissed me on my cheek, and then went back to looking at the screen on his desk in the war room.
I was serious, though. I was going to do all those things, and boys weren’t on the list. Absolutely no boys. Nope, Shiloh Johnston didn’t need a boy to show her how to do things, no way, no how.
Part Three
Shiloh
AGE 16
Oh, my God, did you see how hot Alex looked today at school? He is one hunk of a spunk,
Lacie singsonged.
I groaned every time she mentioned that boy’s name. She was obsessed with him. Alex this and Alex that. It was all she could talk about lately, and she was going to get into some real trouble if her dad heard her talking that way, for sure. Mannix was very over-protective when it came to his daughters, especially since Ebony got married last week. Now the twins were really copping it from their dad. Rainn tried to control him as much as she could, but even her bad-arse ways weren’t working on him.