Thor (Sinful Warriors MC #4)

Chapter 1

Chapter One

MADISON

H e found me. Again. I don’t understand why he won’t let me go. He ruined my life that night ten years ago. He had help. I never saw it coming. I had never in a million years expected that kind of betrayal from my then boyfriend Jonah Shaw. There was a time when my world revolved around him and look where that got me. I vowed after that night to never trust another man with my heart or body.

As much as Jonah’s betrayal hurt me, he’s the only one who can help me. I’m putting a lot at risk by contacting him. One wrong move and I can end up in the hands of that evil man again. But, I have to at least try. I’m tired of living like this. I haven’t seen my parents in three years because of this monster. I’m only able to contact them a few times a day, with a limited amount of time, so he can’t trace the call.

Yeah, I didn’t catch the attention of just any old monster. He’s a freaking mayor. If only the citizens of Arizona knew how corrupt their mayor is. He hasn’t always been this powerful. When I first met the man, at the age of thirteen, he was just an assistant to the mayor. As time went on, his title grew and then bam, he’s a senator. A few years later, he’s the mayor and I’m running for my life.

I hired a private investigator to find Jonah for me. He hasn’t been seen since that night. He completely disappeared. The only reason I know he is very much alive is because of his mother. She ran into my folks not too long ago at the market and started blabbing on and on about how I was the reason her son just up and left and never came back home.

The nerve!

Jonah and his uncle ruined my life! I haven’t been the same since. It’s a hard pill to swallow, knowing the man you thought you would spend the rest of your life with offered you up to his uncle like a piece of meat. I didn’t want to believe it, but when my calls were blocked after that night, I knew he had done it.

Today I’ve driven for ten hours straight, and I need to stop and get some rest. I have a long trip ahead of me, since I’m on the other side of the country from Jonah. Driving to Florida from California is going to take a while. Pulling into a motel for the night, I grab my suitcase and head in. I can't stay at any place that only accepts credit or debit cards as payment. His goons would be here before the sun came up.

Once I pay for my room, I head on up. Opening the door to my room, I chuck my suitcase on the couch before taking a seat. I can’t believe how my life turned out.

I can still remember how happy I was the day my father helped me get my apartment. I was his only girl, so yes, he spoiled me. We weren’t rich by any means, but we lived a comfortable life. My father told me all I had to do was focus on school and he would foot the bill. He also let me know, under no circumstances, could Jonah move in with me.

My parents were old-fashioned. They didn’t believe in shacking up.

After the betrayal of Jonah, I ended moving back home. I couldn’t look at the world the same. Months had passed and I still was too afraid to leave the house. I decided enough was enough. I wasn’t going to keep letting what happened determine my life.

I went to college and got my nursing degree, like I had always dreamed of. It didn’t take long for me to get a job working in the emergency room. My life seemed to be turning around for the better. I stayed at my first job for three years, and then he showed up one day and said it was time for me to come home.

I didn’t understand why he had suddenly come for me. It had been nearly seven years since that night.

I was so overwhelmed with fear, I clocked out and ran home to my parents. I didn’t return to work for two weeks, but that didn’t stop the letters, flowers, and men he sent to my family home. I decided to move out of state, hoping my absence would deter him.

It didn’t.

I moved several more times until I decided to become a traveling nurse. I’m never in the same spot for long and he’s only found me a few times. I took jobs, knowing I wouldn’t have been there that long. This time, I hadn’t been on the job long and he still found me. His letters have gone from trying to sweet talk me to be with him to threatening me.

All these years I’ve ran, thinking he would eventually get tired, but he hasn’t. Now I have to face the man I never wanted to see again.

Pulling out my phone, I dial my mom.

“How are you, honey?” she asks as soon as she picks up.

“I’m okay, Mom. How’s everything at home?” I need to switch the subject. If I talk about how I truly feel, I might have a mental breakdown. I’m not foolish enough to believe my mom doesn’t know what I’m doing, but luckily, for me, she allows it.

“Everything’s okay. We miss you. Ethan wants to know if you’ll be at his eighteenth birthday party. He hasn’t seen his big sister in three years.”

Sighing, I drop the phone away from me. The tears I have been trying to hold back are threatening to fall. I take a few breaths before placing the phone back to my ear. “That’s not fair, Mom. It’s not like it’s by choice.”

“I’ve told you to report him, Madison.”

“How many times have I done that? I get nowhere. He has the police in his pocket!” I snap out of frustration. I hear my mom’s breath hitch and mentally, I scold myself. My mom is on my side. I’m just so stressed from all this crap.

“I’m sorry, Mom. I didn’t mean to yell.”

“I know, sweetheart. We’re going to get through this.”

Staring at my watch, I see our time is coming to an end. “I have to go, Mom. Tell Ethan, Austin, and Dad I love them.”

A tiny sob comes through the line before my mom replies, “I love you, sweetheart. Stay safe.”

“I will. Love you, too, Mom.”

The minute my finger ends the call, the dam breaks. I cry until my eyes are swollen and my body is exhausted. I can’t go on like this. It’s mentally tearing me apart. I’ve always been big on family and not seeing my family for three years is something I never thought would happen to me.

My brothers were young when everything happened. They’re old enough now to understand why I haven’t been home, but they still don’t know every single detail of what I went through.

After a quick shower, I get into bed and hope I’m not making a huge mistake by contacting Jonah. Maybe a little piece of that fourteen-year-old bad boy with a big heart is still in there. Everyone had Jonah pegged to be nothing but trouble, but I didn’t want to believe it.

His sky-blue eyes and shoulder-length blond hair had every girl at the school chasing behind him, but he only saw me. Our relationship caused me to be an outcast with the other girls. The jealousy sometimes made me a victim of the “It” girls. They couldn’t understand how someone like Jonah could be interested in me.

He showed a side of him to me I wouldn’t even have imagined existed. Girls tried their hardest over the years to steal him from me, but he remained faithful and loyal to me.

So, I believed.

Maybe it was all a hoax, because the boy I fell in love with would have never done what he had done. I’m just going to hold on to faith that maybe after all these years, he has a heart and helps me.

Because without Jonah, I’m at a dead end.