Without Light (New Adult Biker Gang Romance) (Night Horses MC Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

your parents that you were tired of their bullshit rules and weren’t coming back. They checked the logs and found a series of texts between you and me from a few weeks ago about how you were going to run away with me.”
     
    I sat up straight.
     
    “ We hadn’t even met,” I said.
     
    “ I know,” he said. “You’re eighteen, though, and so, legally, you’re an adult. Apparently they called the cops and the cops said they couldn’t do anything. You’re not legally required to be anywhere.”
     
    I blinked.
     
    “ So, my parents think I’m just… mad at them?” I asked.
     
    “ I showed up at your door and they about ripped me a new one,” he said. “I got the whole story from them and figured out where you were by asking around a little.”
     
    I slumped back against his shoulder.
     
    “ They must be so angry,” I said. “I’m probably failing all of my classes. Fuck.”
     
    “ Do you want me to take you home now?” he asked.
     
    I hesitated, and shook my head.
     
    “ Nothing you can do about it right now,” he said. “Just get some rest.”
     
    I nodded.
     
    “ Can I ask…” he began, softly. “What happened? What did they do to you?”
     
    “ Are you asking if they, uh, if they raped me?” I asked, trying to sound more casual than I felt.
     
    “ Yeah,” he said. I could feel the tension, the anger, radiating from him.
     
    “ No,” I said. “I think they would have in another day or two.”
     
    He nodded.
     
    When he turned to face me, his shadowy, stubbly face, was drawn.
     
    “ I’m so glad they didn’t,” he said. “The thought of them touching you…”
     
    He grimaced.
     
    I reached out and stroked his cheek, surprising a smile out of him.
     
    I looked down at myself, in my stolen club dress and, well, nothing else. The skirt was so far up my thighs, I’m pretty sure if Merle had looked he could have seen everything I had.
     
    “ Merle?” I said softly, looking down at myself.
     
    “ Yeah?” he asked.
     
    “ I’m so gross. Like, super disgusting. Do you have a shower? Can I maybe stay there forever?”
     
    He laughed out loud.
     
    “ You’re not the loveliest flower I’ve ever smelled,” he said. “Come on. Plenty of hot water.”
     
    He stood up and held out a hand, pulling me onto my feet. It wasn’t my imagination - he carefully looked away until I pulled down the skimpy dress.
     
    Merle seemed like such a good guy.
     
    I still wasn’t sure whether I was grateful to him or furious at him.
     
    He led me into the bathroom and showed me where the towels were, disappearing briefly and coming back with a pile of clothing.
     
    “ I don’t know what you’d wanna wear,” he said. “I grabbed a bit of everything.”
     
    He left the stack on the counter and went back into his bedroom, shutting the door behind me.
     
    “ No!” I screamed.
     
    He reappeared almost instantly, to find me shaking in a corner. He grabbed my arms and forced them down from where they were protecting my head.
     
    “ No,” I said. “No, no, no. The door. No. Please don’t leave me in here, I’ll be good.”
     
    “ Oh, sweetheart,” he said, wrapping me in his arms and just holding me for a few long moments. “Sweetheart, it’s okay. No one’s shutting you in anywhere.”
     
    I shook my head, mutely.
     
    “ Being silly,” I said. “Sorry.”
     
    One moment, I was on top of the world, the next, I was cowering in a corner. Everything seemed too large, too bright, too suffocating, too enclosing.
     
    “ Want me to just hose you down out there?” he asked with a grin.
     
    I laughed, a little.
     
    “ No, but…” I hesitated. “Will you stay with me?”
     
    “ Sure,” he said. He stepped away from me and sat down on the closed toilet, facing the wall and starting in on a long, involved story about a buddy of his who’d fallen in a mud-pit and then tripped and landed in a  grease patch on his way to the shower and had ended up just