Steal Me

Steal MeBurnout Brothers MCSybur Phyreelstrife.com/sybur-phyre Steal Me: Burnout Brothers Book 1Copyright © 2023 Sybur PhyreAll Rights Reserved.Cover Design: Amy HarwellThank you for purchasing an authorized version of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not scanning, reproducing, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission.Steal Me is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Steal MeThis book contains violence, cursing, lots of burnouts, steamy romance, cyberpunk settings, and alpha males.When secrets come out, there’s nowhere far enough to run and hide from Jaime MacCullen.One fatal night sent Burnout Brother’s club leader, Red, to the hospital and three members to the morgue, including Denise, Red’s woman, and Jaime’s last sibling. Trying to calm Red and keep him in his hospital bed after Denise’s death took a goddamn miracle.Red’s a mess. The brothers are on edge. And Jaime’s fury isn’t something even the brothers dare stifle. He’d been sent on a blind date that night that hadn’t shown. (Ember Reign got lost) If only he’d told Denise not to waste her time and then stayed with them, none of this would’ve happened. (Denise was trying to protect her brother)Their stand-in leader, Colsen, wants Jaime to take time off to rest and clear his head. But honor is at stake, and sleep is for the dead. Denise and the others deserve brutal justice. There’s a savage monster inside Jaime that he needs to let out.He knows who’s to blame.Bradley Stanton and his Rogue River Demons have hell to pay.Jaime tracks Bradley down, but a surprise guest has Jaime holding back from taking revenge. Bradley’s new woman looks oddly familiar, and she’s in more danger than she knows.Ella Reign is new to the city, and already it’s left a bad impression. Her only friend, Denise, has been killed with two others. All she knows is Bradley’s a liar, and he wants the Burnout Brothers gone. Ella thought she’d left the dangerous sub-city behind her only to discover someone new watching her from the shadows. She needs an escape, but Bradley has other plans. Burnout Brothers Code Never betray a brother.Never leave a brother behind.Never harm a brother’s Old Lady.Rough rides only.Serve and protect the community.Public affection is for Burnout Babes only.Daily fitness required.Never miss Dinner. Brothers and Babes are family. We eat, sleep, ride, and die together. Valkyrie Chapter Heirarchy Pres: Red – CEO of chapter, all matters go through himVice: Colsen – supervises events and communicates between members and PresRoad Captain: Gunnar – plans rides (called “runs”) and takes charge if Pres and Vice are unable to, rides at front with PresSgt at Arms: Piston – monitors club members for adherence to rules, club security, guards weaponsEnforcer: Zade – works under Sgt at Arms, ensures rules are followed and protects club’s reputation, including in physical confrontationsWrenchhead: Lugnut – In house vehicle maintenanceSupervisor: Slasher – monitors vehicle maintenance on runsSecretary: Rowdy – keeps records and performs public relationsTreasurer: (Denise) Knox – keeps track of financial records and operationsScout: Venice – monitors streets for unfavorable activityReaper: Jaime MacCullen – the 1% that evens scores when someone wrongs the club Chapter 1: JaimeDenise’s last words rasp out just before the machine flat lines. “Did you find her?”I’m not sure what that means. Before I can ask if she’s seriously inquiring about the blind date she set me up with on her deathbed, her hand falls limp in mine. A queasy feeling grips my stomach, uncommon to me when witnessing the end of a life. But Denise was special, a close friend, family.Nurses rush in and try to zap her awake with their AEDs and rigorous chest compressions, but I know it’s no use. She’s lost too much blood. I gave her everything they’d let me. Red, her man, isn’t compatible.I wish they’d let her lie in peace. But I can’t stop them from trying. I don’t want them to stop. I don’t want to lose my last sibling. I never really got to know Nels.I didn’t want to be a member of Burnout Brothers or any other club, like our half-brother. None of us had the same father. I grew up apart from Nels and Denise, taken when I was born by the orphanage in the neighboring city of Neolathe. Watching Denise lie there in the bed, motionless like the first picture I saw of her, the buzz of people around her blurring my vision more than a drunken night out, brings back the memory of her reaching out to me out of the blue. She found me on the holofeed while I served in Valkyrie’s military in another city. That was a decade ago.My cut grates my skin, the patches I’ve earned as a Burnout Brother weighing heavily on me. I’m sensitive —on edge. Any wrong move around me, and I fear I might snap.The Brothers gave me a home when I came back from the war, but it has only been a different kind of battle. Instead of fighting for freedom and independence of the cities, we struggle against the gangs, mobs, mafias, outlaw clubs, and corrupt politicians who want to control our city. They hoped I’d fill Nels’ boots. But I’m not a pretty boy secretary. That’s Rowdy’s job now. No, I am something much darker.No one was allowed to use my real name except Denise. Now Jaime MacCullen is dead. The Reaper is all I am.There aren’t a lot of things in this city that can stop me in my tracks. I get my way most of the time. But staring at Denise’s pale, motionless face has me adrift in empty space. A piece of me has died with her. I wish she would smile, look at me and nag me about my lack of anger management skills and eating too much shitty bar food. But she