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Tate, Lost Sons MC
Copyright © 2019 KJ Dahlen Books
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
CREED’S RETURN
A SPECIAL EDITION<
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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
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A SPECIAL EDITION
This series book came from a Chapter Story that was written 2 chapters a week as my readers read along with it at my Website. They took the journey with me of spinning a Story and it was the experience of a lifetime for all of us.
Now, here is Tate, Book Two in the Lost Sons MC series.
I hope you enjoy the book and the series.
K.J. Dahlen
Prologue
Tate pulled up to the curb and looked over at the house on Carroll Street. He’d made the trip to Waco early this morning. Four days ago, they had learned that his wife, Nita had survived being run off the bridge near Killeen, eight years ago.
The last four days, things had been crazy taking the MC back from Bandit and remaking it their own. They still had a long way to go to get reestablished but they were well on their way. But this trip was one Tate couldn’t put off any longer.
He thought he’d buried his wife eight years ago and every day of those eight years, he’d mourned her. Nita might not have loved the MC life as much as he did but together they hadn’t done too bad. They had raised a family together, four sons and a little girl. His oldest son wasn’t hers but she didn’t care, she’d showed Creed how a mother was supposed to be and it wasn’t long before he belonged to her as much as the others did.
She had kept the balance that meant everything to him. The balance between the MC and family. Then one day— she was just gone. And with her absence, his life had been torn apart. He admitted that to himself at least if not to the whole world, he began to fall into an abyss he couldn’t pull himself out of. In his grief and tailspin, he’d entirely missed the fact that Bandit was plotting to take the club away from him. He didn’t see the setup until Creed was already behind bars. It was only when he began digging when he realized Bandit and Snake were behind the whole setup.
Then when he confronted the pair, they beat him almost to death and threw him into that fucking cave. When he woke up, he didn’t even know his own name. Laying there in so much pain, he could almost hear another voice in his head telling him to clean up his shit, that he had a family to protect. He hadn’t understood whose voice it was but that voice haunted him for two years before he remembered what happened. It had been Nita’s voice he’d heard. He didn’t understand it back then and he didn’t really understand it now, but it had been her voice he was sure of that much.
Then four days ago, his world had been torn apart again, when he found that damn file. When he opened it, his heart stopped beating for a full second, then the pain pounded in his chest as his heart began beating again as he stared at the photos he’d seen.
He remembered looking down and gasping at those images in the file. His lungs burned as he forgot to breathe for a moment. At first, he didn’t know what they were then he shook his head and cleared his mind. The photos could have been crime scene photos. A railing along the highway showing a bridge over a deep ravine that housed a fast moving river. A break in the guardrail and an upside down car at the bottom of the ravine. The car was mostly sitting on the bank of the river but the driver’s side door was open and the driver was missing. The photos showed the body of one woman sitting in the passenger seat, her face was covered in blood, and they could see she was dead.
The car was one Tate knew well, one they all knew well. It was his wife’s car. He might have only married one time in his life but when he did, Creed was four years old and his own mother had left them both two years earlier. Tate and Nita had been married for almost twenty-three years when her car went over the railing. Silas’s wife was in the car as well when it went over the side of the bridge. The police found her body but they didn’t find Nita’s. They said it could have washed down river but they never found it.
The double blow hit the family hard, especially him and Silas but also the kids. Nita was Harry, Daniel, Jack and Kimber’s mother and although she hadn’t given birth to him, she was Creed’s mom as well.
“What the hell was he doing with this file?” Creed asked after his dad had handed it to him, but no one could answer him. It had been something Bandit had hidden all these years.
Tate had flipped through the other pages in the file and something caught his eye. It was an address in Waco. He’d looked up at Harry, Daniel and Jack. The heartbreak on their faces almost broke his own heart. He’d taken out his cell phone and had snapped a picture of the address.
Cobra had gotten up and took the file from Creed. “This can wait son.” He’d motioned toward his family. “They need you right now.”
Creed nodded and gathered his brothers in a hug. Tate got to his feet and joined them and for a moment, they were all silently mourning their loss together. Then Tate stepped back wiping the tears from his eyes as he’d all but growled, “Get Bender up here. He’s been Bandit’s go to guy the longest. If he knows anything he’ll tell us.”
“And if he doesn’t?” Thor asked.
“Then he’ll wish he did.” Tate shrugged.
Thor walked down the stairs and entered the basement. He stood in front of the first cell and just stared at Bandit for a long moment.
Bandit stared back with cold, unfeeling eyes. Finally, after a long moment Bandit looked away from the other man.
Thor felt all kinds of angry. “You really are a bastard, you know that? There’s a special place in hell for men like you. How many more secrets are they going to find before this is all said and done?” He walked over to the second cell and called out, “Bender.”
The other prisoners stepped back and cleared a path for the man.
Thor took out his gun and held it on the crowd as he unlocked the door.
“What did they find?” one of the men asked.
“They found out about Nita and Rosie, didn’t they?” Bender asked.
Thor nodded.
“What about Nita and Rosie?” Boulder asked. “They died in an accident eight years ago.”
“They may have died eight years ago but from what I could see it wasn’t an accident.” Thor glared at the men in the cell. “How much guts does it take to force a car with two helpless women it off a bridge and then ride away?”
Bender snorted. “Except, he didn’t just ride away now did he?”
“Bender, you’d better keep your fuckin mouth shut! You swore to a blood oath remember?” Bandit yelled out in a hoarse whisper.
Bender turned and glared at the other man. “Fuck you, you murdering coward. We’re all facing a tribunal thanks to you. Maybe it’s time all the truth came out so the right person takes the blame for what happened with this club. You took this MC and made us all murderers and thieves. We all had pride in ourselves and in this club because we stood for something back then. You and Snake have been plottin
g for ten years now, for how to take it away from Tate and Silas saying you would turn it into something better. Only problem was you didn’t turn it into something better, you turned it into shit!”
Bender turned to stare at the men in the cell behind him. “You want to know what really happened to Nita and Rosie that day eight years ago? I can tell you. I was there. Bandit, Snake and I were riding over to Waco that day, when Bandit saw Nita’s car in front of us. He sped up and bumped the back of it. Nita sped up but so did he. Then Snake sped up too. They played a dangerous game of cat and mouse with two older ladies. For five long miles, they played bumper cars with them until they came up to the bridge, then the game got real.”
The men in the cells all wore horrified looks or expressions of disgust as they listened.
“You all know how Bandit likes to do wheelies and shit,” Bender reminded them all. “Well, he rode up to the car with his engines roaring and popped a wheelie only this time he came down on the top of Nita’s car while Snake came up alongside it with his gun in his hand. He pointed it at Rosie’s face and fired. He jerked it away from the window at the last second so the bullet never touched her but Nita didn’t know that. She sped up again and that’s when Bandit shot out one of the back tires. Nita lost control of her car and it went through the guardrail and dropped down into the ravine. Then Bandit finds a way down to make sure they’re both dead.
“Rosie didn’t survive the fall but Nita was still alive. She was covered in blood and in shock when he pulled her out of the car. He tied her to Snake’s bike and we got the hell out of there. They went one way and I went the other.” Bender shook his head. “I don’t know where they took her but he told me later she was still alive and that she couldn’t remember her own name let alone who forced her off the road. He swore me to silence with a blood oath.”
“Why are you telling us about it now then?” Thor asked. Everyone in the room knew what the blood oath was and they respected its power.
“While I may respect the oath, Bandit never did,” Bender explained. “He proved that when he killed Smoky, Opie and Hanger, or when he put Creed in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, or when he beat the hell out of first Tate then Silas. Along with everything else he’s done to this club since the day he stole it from its true president.” He turned to Bandit and stared at the man. “You remember the words you made me swear to that day Bandit? Do you? You made me swear that if I told anyone about Nita and Rosie’s accident you had the right and responsibility to kill me. But in return, you swore to take care of the club and its members, you swore to me that you would always put the club first and protect it with your life. That’s what you swore to that day.” He scoffed. “I believed in the oath and all you did was say the words. You never believed in them.”