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  Royally Inked

  A Royal MC Novel

  Elle Boon

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  Copyright 2022 © Elle Boon

  All cover art and logos © Copyright

  Cover design by Lucian Bane/Lou Grey

  Cover Model: Travis Bendall

  Photographer: Lindee Robinson

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  Royally Inked

  A Royal MC Novel

  Copyright © 2022 Elle Boon

  First E-book Publication: 2022

  Cover design by Lucian Bane/Lou Grey

  Cover Model: Travis Bendall

  Photographer: Lindee Robinson

  Edited by Tracy Roelle

  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission.

  All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

  PUBLISHER:

  Elle Boon

  Table of Contents

  Royal Bastards Code

  Dedication

  Character List

  Royal MC Playlist

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Royally Ruthless

  Author’s Note

  Thank You

  About Elle Boon

  Other Books by Elle Boon

  Royal Bastards Code

  PROTECT: The club and your brothers come before anything else and must be protected at all costs. CLUB is FAMILY.

  RESPECT: Earn it & Give it. Respect club law. Respect the patch. Respect your brothers. Disrespect a member and there will be hell to pay.

  HONOR: Being patched in is an honor, not a right. Your colors are sacred, not to be left alone, and NEVER let them touch the ground.

  OLE’ LADIES: Never disrespect a member’s or brother’s Ole’Lady. PERIOD.

  CHURCH is MANDATORY.

  LOYALTY: Takes precedence overall, including well-being.

  HONESTY: Never LIE, CHEAT, or STEAL from another member or the club.

  TERRITORY: You are to respect your brother’s property and follow their Chapter’s club rules.

  TRUST: Years to earn it...seconds to lose it.

  NEVER RIDE OFF: Brothers do not abandon their family.

  Dedication

  First and foremost, I’d like to thank all you amazing readers for loving my Royal MC series enough to want more. I hope you’ve enjoyed all the stories you’ve read, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with Lux and her guy T-Rex. There are some major things that happen in this story and there’s a little flashback, but I think I did a good job of keep it all vague enough y’all won’t be going “What the eff, Elle”.

  To my amazing team of Betas, y’all rock sooo effing hard. Debbie Ramos, Maureen Ames, and Mary Hullinger, and Ann Ivey for joining the gang of ladies, along with the entire Boonies Crew, thank you ladies for helping with this story, and for all that you do to make my books amazing. Thank you to my amazing editor Tracy Roelle for always putting in those long hours for “that client” LOL. And a huge thanks to you readers...you are simply the best ever. FLOVE y’all soo hard. And last but definitely not least, a huge shoutout to Lucian Bane/Lou Gray for this amazing cover and Happy reading, y’all.

  Y’all have no clue how much I appreciate all who have read my stories. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Love y’all soo hard.

  XOXO,

  Elle Boon

  Character List

  TO AVOID SPOILERS THIS LIST ONLY INCLUDES THE CHARACTERS MENTIONED

  IN THE PREVIOUS BOOKS

  ROYAL MC Members:

  King Royal – President – King Royal Jr (Son of King Sr), brother to Duke VP (Royally Tempted book 3)

  Duke Royal – Vice President – Son of King Royal Sr, brother to King (Royally Treasured book 4)

  Traeger – Sgt at Arms (Royally Taken book 2)

  Keys – Treasurer/Tech Genius (Royally Broken book 5)

  Hollywood aka Scott Haven – Enforcer (Royally Chosen Christmas book 7)

  Digger – Road Captain – Owns Royal Towing

  Cosmo – Enforcer and money man (Royally F**ked changed to Royally Saved book 6)

  Tymber – Tattoo Artist (Royally Twisted book 1)

  Ayesha – King’s ole’ lady (Royally Tempted book 3)

  Ivy – Tymber’s ole’ lady, former best friend of Luke Royal (Royally Twisted book 1)

  Luke Royal – Twin to Duke Royal / Luke committed suicide in Royally Twisted.

  Kailani – Traeger’s ole’ lady – Mob boss’s daughter (Father and Brother both killed in previous books) (Royally Taken book 2)

  Lennox – Duke’s ole’ lady – Doc’s daughter – Doctor and old timer (Royally Treasured book 4)

  Palmer – Keys’ ole’ lady (Royally Broken book 5)

  DaiTai – Cosmo’s ole’ lady (Royally Saved book 6)

  Talena – Hollywood’s ole’ lady (Royally Chosen Christmas book 7)

  Archer – Formerly known as prospect Frog – Real name is Mick Richardson (Royally Targeted book 9)

  Tiana – Archer’s ole’ lady and Sister to Ayesha who is King’s ole’ lady (Royally Targeted book 9)

  Groot – Pete former prospect, killed in Royally Tempted by Ayesha/King

  T-Rex – Enforcer real name Theriot Raptor Guidry from the Bayou (Royally Inked book 10)

  Lux – T-Rex’s ole’ lady/Tattoo artist at Twisted Ink (Royally Inked book 10)

  Chains – Cage driver

  Bruiser – Enforcer

  Coal – Cage Driver

  Former Originals: None have books or have been mentioned except King Sr... yet “wink”

  King Royal Sr – President – Deceased

  Ryno Marx – VP - Deceased

  Argo Peters – Sgt at Arms – Deceased

  Crazy Jax – Treasurer – Deceased

  Torpedo (Tinny) – Deceased

  Royal MC Playlist

  Chris Stapleton - You Should Probably Leave

  Careless Whisper -Seether

  Bed On Fire -Teddy Swims

  Lonely - Justine Bieber

  Chasing After You -Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris

  Easy On Me _ Adele

  Lasting Lover Sigala & James Author

  It Will Come Back - Hozier

  Monsters - Demi Lovato feat. Blackbear

  Blinding Lights - Teddy Swims

  Welcome to My House Nu Breed & Jesse Howard

  Villain - Lily Rose

  Goodbyes - Post Malone

  Finally//beautiful stranger - Halsey

  Memories - Maroon 5

  You Broke Me First - Tate McRae

  Falling - Harry Styles

  Without Me - Halsey & Juice World

  I Fall Apart - Post Malone

  Tell Me You Love Me - Demi Lovato

  Starting Over - Christ Stapleton

  Someone You loved - Lewis Capaldi

  I hope - Gabby Barrett & Charlie Puth

  Hold On - Cord Overstreet

  Love Lies - Khalid & Normani

  Bad Intentions - Niykee Heaton

  Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon

  Apologize - Timbaland & OneRepublic

  Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

  You Don't Own Me - Say Grace Ft G-Eazy

  If You Want Love - NF

  Hero - Enrique Iglesias

  Let's Hurt Tonight - OneRepublic

  If the World Was Ending - JP Saxe & Julia Michaels

  Die From A Broken Heart - Maddie & Tae

  Chapter One

  Lux watched the man who captured her interest far more than he should walk out the back door, her body tingling in foreign places that it hadn’t in a long time. Hell, she was sure she’d become numb regarding anything sexual in nature.

  The phone ringing pulled her from her lustful thoughts, thank the lord. Of course, she had stopped believing in God, the night... Lux pumped the fucking brakes on memories that were best left buried deep within her mind and jerked the phone from the base on the desk in front of her. “Yo, Twisted Ink.”

  Silence greeted her, making her pull the handheld back from her to stare at it to see if she hadn’t hit the answer button. Yep, the little screen was glowing, and she could see the caller ID said unknown. Fucking great. “Listen, we ain’t buying whatever the fuck you’re selling.”

  “I... I’m looking for Lux McDaniels?” a sweet voice asked.

  Sheot. Lux screwed her eyes shut, wondering who the fuck was calling. She went through a mental check list of who the hell she’d pissed off, knowing damn good and well the list could be long. All her bills were paid, so that wasn’t it. She hadn’t fucked anyone in like forever, which meant it wasn’t somebody’s wife or girlfriend. She mentally checked that off the laundry list of who the fuck would come calling to want to try and kick her ass. Keyword being try.

  “Hello, are you there?” This time, it was probably the sweet woman who had to pull her phone away to see if there was somebody still on the line.

  Lux was many things, but a runner or a
chickenshit wasn’t one of them. “This is Lux. What’s up?”

  “Your bedside manner truly needs work, girl.”

  Lux lifted her right hand, giving Ember her fellow tattoo artist the bird as he spoke up from behind her. His tattoo gun stopped the constant buzzing at some point to listen to her. Damn nosey fucker.

  “I’ve offered, but you keep turning me down,” Ember said.

  She flipped her long hair over her shoulder, glaring at him with her finger still in the air while still holding the phone with one hand. “First of all, me flipping you the bird is not me propositioning you for sex. Second, you have never offered to have sex with me, and if you did, I most certainly would’ve turned you down on the basis that A. you’re like my brother from another mother, and B. you are a walking, talking, manwhore.”

  Ember staggered backward, grabbing his chest as he gasped for breath. “You—you have wounded me. All the times I’ve offered you my body, and you’re saying you never noticed?”

  Lux turned back to face the front of the shop, ignoring Ember who happened to be one of her best friends. “You didn’t deny the manwhore.”

  “I cannot tell a lie.” Ember’s laugh was wicked and filled with promises she had no plan to take him up on. She also knew he had no real interest in her in that way either.

  A loud grunt had her turning to see the object of her lustful thoughts had returned, his dark gaze was trained on Ember with an intensity she couldn’t decipher.

  “Hey, man, I forgot to schedule my final session.” T-Rex didn’t so much as walk but stalked back toward Ember’s station.

  “Lux, are you there?”

  “Shit. Yeah, sorry.” She pulled her thoughts away from the two men and back to the caller.

  “I was wanting to see if I could come in for a—tattoo,” she stuttered.

  She didn’t have time to sit around with some high society chick who wanted to get a flower or butterfly tramp stamp or whatever was in at the moment. “Listen, hun, I’m not sure what your reasoning is or why you want to get inked, but you should probably sleep on it before you decide to do something that’s permanent.”

  The bell over the door rang, making Lux look up. She had to squint since the setting sun was shining in through the windows, temporarily blocking her view.

  “I’ve slept on it for a long time, hun.” Her caller disconnected the call, but Lux heard the echo come from the woman in front of her.

  “Dayumm,” Ember whispered.

  Lux set the phone back on the charging base but didn’t get off the stool. If this woman was wanting a consultation, then she’d give her one. Hell, she didn’t have another client until tomorrow morning, which she’d just finished drawing the design for only moments before the phone rang.

  “Well, I’m at a disadvantage since I didn’t get your name. I’m Lux, and you’re?” Lux lifted one brow and waited.

  The blonde with her Chanel bag and designer everything looked around their shop before coming to stand in front of Lux, letting out a sigh. “You don’t recognize me?”

  At twenty-seven, she’d seen a lot of people and been a lot of places, including foreign countries thanks to her father being in the military. So, no, she didn’t recognize the woman. Hell, this was California. Blondes were basically a dime a dozen. She didn’t say that though. Instead she lifted one shoulder. “Um, I’m really bad with names.”

  Ember snorted from behind. He knew her better than most and was aware that wasn’t true. Fucker. Smart man he was, he kept his trap shut.

  “Nora Clark from high school. We graduated together. We were both Valedictorians for our class.”

  “What the fuck, Lux? I didn’t know you were smart?”

  Again, she lifted her middle finger, panic making her heart race. Nora’s face swam in front of her, memories threatening to topple her out of the chair. Fuck that, she wasn’t doing that, not here, never again. She’d squashed those demons from her past. Hell, she’d run, but whatever.

  “Damn, my bad, Nora. You’ve not changed a bit.” Well, aside from the obvious boob job, probably had Botox scheduled like clockwork every six months, and her teeth appeared to be sporting pearly white veneers. Lux was pretty sure Nora didn’t have such a perfect smile when they’d been in school. Every high society woman in LA was getting veneers nowadays. She had other things she’d do with fifty grand, but she wasn’t judging. Nope, not her.

  “You’ve gotten really good at lying, Lux. I didn’t even see you blink, twitch, or do any tell-tale signs that would indicate you weren’t saying the truth. And trust me, I know a liar.” Nora let out a deep gust of air while looking down at her feet.

  “It’s been a long time since I saw you last. So, you want a tattoo, huh?” She wasn’t going to touch the lying bit. In her opinion, if a person wanted to alter their appearance in any way, that was their business. Her own body had been altered, albeit with ink instead of surgically. Yet if she decided she wanted to enhance her girls, she’d totally do it. For now, she was solidly in the C-cup family. Her girls were high and firm, which she thanked the lord for that one saving grace. Well, she and the man upstairs weren’t actually on speaking terms, but again, whatever.

  Nora licked her lips, but she nodded, pulling out a folded piece of paper from her expensive leather bag. Lux eyed her shaking hand, admiring the fact the other woman didn’t drop it, given the fact she was literally shaking like a leaf on a tree in a damn tornado. Lux gave a little mercy, reaching across the short counter space to take it from her. Nora’s hands smoothed down her legs, probably wiping away sweat.

  Lux was expecting some cliché tattoo image from the other woman. In her experience, she got a lot of women and some men or rather boys, who came in wanting shit tattooed on their bodies, but Nora shocked her again. The image that had been drawn was of a human heart, not a pretty one you see on valentine’s day cards, but the organ inside a human body. The rough drawing was done in pencil with the heart showing a jagged split down the middle. Lux liked how Nora tried to show the edges being sewn back together. It was obvious that Nora wasn’t an artist, but she’d put a lot of thought, and as cliché as it was, she’d put her heart into the design, keeping it black and white until she added the ribbon, or stitching where she’d obviously grabbed a crayon in a deep red. At the very bottom of the image where the coloring began, it looked as though the stitches made a large X with each weave, sewing the broken heart back together. She fingered the top of the paper where the ribbon went off on either side, imagining what she could put on it if Nora allowed her. “This is...this is really good, Nora. Can I play with it a little?”

  While Nora had done a good job of sketching the art down, Lux wanted to make it a little more crisp and clean. That way when she transferred it to Nora’s skin, it would look even better. Something she could be proud of.

  “You don’t think it’s too morbid?” Nora asked. She looked down toward the paper on the counter.

  “Fuck no, girl. This is brilliant. I love the fact you put this much thought and creativity into it, and honestly, I love when people choose things that has meaning behind it. You want it to stay black and white with just the red in there like that?” Lux was itching to start drawing, adding her own little details on the design.

  When Nora nodded her approval, Lux pulled a clean drawing book out. “You can have a seat over there or sit on one of the stools here.” Lux was already sketching as she spoke.

  This, drawing images felt normal to her as she lost herself to the craft that she’d done many times before. It didn’t matter that the design wasn’t hers originally.

  With her lip between her teeth, Lux made the heart appear 3d, giving it more detail. Once she put the piece on Nora, she’d add the shading and hopefully the other woman could handle a little pain ’cause this was going to be fucking epic once it was done.

  “Here you go. What do you think?” Lux turned the pad around, showing what she’d come up with. Essentially it was Nora’s vision.

  Nora placed one finger on the ribbon flowing off to the right, then looked up at Lux. “You’re a genius.”

  Lux shook her head. “Hey, you did all the work. I just tweaked it a bit.”

  Ember leaned over her shoulder, staring down at the paper. She’d felt his presence but didn’t think anything of it since all of the artists at Twisted Ink were always up in each other’s business. Nora’s eyes went wide as she stared at her co-worker, clear interest shining in her blue eyes. Ember was a gorgeous man who seemed to have women, and even men falling at his feet. Yet he was careful not to allow them to get attached. She waited for him to comment on the artwork in front of her. He wasn’t one to make blithe remarks or false compliments.