Stone (Knights Corruption MC Series Book 2) Read Online Free

crippling them into oblivion, definitely a win-win for us.
    I was inside the clubhouse for five minutes, chatting it up with Cutter and his son, Breck, when Ryder and Hawke strolled through the door, bags of food in each of their hands. I hadn’t realized how hungry I was until right then. Food had been the last thing on my mind since my interaction with Adelaide. She frustrated me beyond belief, and it was a wonder I was able to interact with anyone else after she left me at the hospital.
    She sure was a spitfire, and although it annoyed me most times—that day being a prime example—her feistiness often turned me the fuck on.
    “It’s about time you two bastards got back,” Cutter joked, grabbing a few of the bags to inspect what they’d bought. “Where’s the beer?”
    “Right here, old man,” Hawke interjected, shoving a case of alcohol at him. Before Cutter uttered another word, Hawke said, “Don’t worry, there’s more in the van.”
    Laughing, Cutter and Breck headed outside to grab the rest of the night’s drink. While beer was high on the list, we also kept a stocked liquor bar. Every man had their poison, and while most of us could handle it, some could not—Ryder jumping to the top of that list. We made sure it was a rare occasion when he indulged, mainly because he became a mean drunk when he consumed the hard stuff. Beer flowed nicely through his system, but get some whiskey in the bastard and he was ready to take on every one of us.
    That man had some demons lurking inside, a part of him he kept secret from the rest of us. The most anyone knew about his private life was that he had been married once, but she up and left him, taking their daughter with her. He never divulged the reason why, even when we tried to get it out of him while he was drunk, volatile or not. He was another brother who hardly took advantage of the available pussy.
    Me, on the other hand, I dove right in, until I got mixed up with Adelaide a year back. Since her, I hadn’t so much as touched another woman. She was all I needed.
    But our relationship was complicated. Too many obstacles in the way of officially being together. Her uncle was number one. The club’s lifestyle was number two.
    The Knights were well on their way to becoming legit, the next day’s final meeting with the cartel proving so. Now, all I had to do was make sure Trigger wouldn’t shoot me, and then I could convince Adelaide to be with me once and for all.

Adelaide
    After the day’s events, all I wanted to do was crawl into a hot bath and let the water soak away all my fears. Trying my best to calm myself until the results came back, my brain was suddenly consumed with one man.
    Stone Crosswell.
    I’d asked him one time how he’d got his road name and he told me that Marek had given it to him when they were kids. Said he was like a block of stone, never allowing anything to penetrate. No pain. Statuesque when any other normal human being would have crumbled under the agony of life’s afflictions. Stone had what was referred to as congenital insensitivity to pain, and while he thought it was a blessing, it was really a curse. Pain was the body’s alarm system, sounding off when something was wrong. Because of his condition, he was careless, flippant even when it came to keeping himself out of harm’s way. Something which drove me absolutely insane.
    His given name was Lincoln, but only a few people knew that. The only reason I knew his real name was because he let it slip one time when he was talking about his mother, and how she used to call him by his full name when she was upset with him. Lincoln DeLeon Crosswell. His revelation caught me so off guard I could do nothing but laugh. Only he could pull off a name like that, although Stone was quite fitting as well.
    The only time he tolerated me calling him Lincoln was when I was extremely upset with him. And it was during those times he knew enough from my tone and choice of name to back off and