Fighting Back (Harrow #2) (29 page)

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‘If you entrust the launch to us, Mr. Potter  I can assure you that your club will be the most popular hotspot in Miami before this week is out,’ Layla said. ‘Tickets to your opening night will be gold dust in this town.’

‘Your firm does come highly recommended.’

The meeting in this cocktail bar on the waterfront was meant to be informal, but the sixty year old in his slick Italian suit wasn’t from this part of the world – as his apparel betrayed.

‘We have done a number of very successful nightclub launches,’ Layla said, pushing a glossy folder across the metallic table-top toward Potter.

‘I was advised to speak directly with your boss.’

‘Mandy has assigned your account to myself. I am a very trusted member of her team.’

Actually, Mandy couldn’t stand her and Layla had to beg for the chance to hold this meeting. She’d only been working under Mandy for six weeks, but already she could tell that she’d have an uphill climb to gain any kind of respect. She knew that the only reason Mandy had folded and agreed to let Layla have this client was because he insisted on a meeting so late in the evening. “In the buzz of Miami” was apparently what Potter had said, but Mandy had a new boyfriend and her evenings had been reserved for him recently, meaning Layla caught herself a break.

‘I suppose that’s acceptable,’ Potter said, his gaze falling to the slope of her breasts displayed in the V-lines of her spaghetti strap sundress.

Layla reached to the brochure and opened the glossy pages to show him images of clubs the PR firm she worked for had launched. ‘You can read testimonials here from—‘

‘Layla Jansen!’

Drawing her eyes away from the booklet and up to the man who’d stopped at the side of their high silver table, she was at a loss. He had to be six five and was built broad under the white vest he wore.

‘Do I know you?’ she asked, sitting up to examine the tan under the stubble on his jaw. Although she couldn’t see his eyes because they were under slick wraparound shades nothing about him was familiar.

‘Sure!’ he said with an exuberant grin and turned to Potter. ‘I’m Ruger Warner, Layla and I are old friends.’

‘Are we?’ Layla asked through her smile without moving her lips. The men shook hands, but Potter was as flummoxed as she was. ‘Remind me.’

‘Always a kidder,’ Ruger said, dropping a heavy hand onto her newly exfoliated shoulder. ‘Layla and I go way back, she’s a great girl.’

‘Well it was great to see you again, Ruger,’ Layla said, hoping he’d take the hint and vanish as quickly as he had appeared. She’d never had a one night stand in her life, but she began to mentally catalogue every creepy guy in a bar who had tried it on recently. ‘Maybe we’ll see each other again.’

‘You don’t mind if I join you, do you?’ Ruger asked, rounding to table to seat himself in the vacant spot.

‘Actually—‘ Potter began.

‘This is a business meeting,’ Layla said. ‘I can’t catch up right now.’

‘Oh,’ Ruger said. ‘How stupid of me, this is the nightclub guy, Potter, sure. You were worried that he wouldn’t like your pitch, but smart move with the dress.’ Ruger lifted his glasses to ogle her cleavage. ‘Guy won’t hear a word you say.’ He winked and re-seated his glasses.

Trying not to have a heart attack, she pounced out of her seat and snatched Ruger’s wrist. ‘Would you please excuse us, Mr. Potter?’

Ruger put up no resistance when she yanked him from his seat and began to drag him to the sidewalk. Behind the potted palm tree that stood at the entrance, she dropped Ruger’s arm and spun on the spot to thrust her fists onto her hips.

‘An old friend who knows my current calendar?’ she demanded.

‘Weird, isn’t it?’ he grinned.

‘I don’t find this at all funny. What is your problem? Who the hell are you? Stalking laws are strict in this part of the world, you know.’ Layla had no idea about the stalking laws in Miami, she’d been living here for less than six months and that information wasn’t on her research priority list.

‘You need to come with me,’ Ruger said.

‘Yeah, right.’

‘Seriously,’ he said and his grin disappeared. ‘I need to take you from here, right now.’

‘Not a chance. Do you know how long I’ve waited to have a chance at a meeting like this? If I can crack this guy then I can have my own accounts and… wait, why am I explaining myself to you? Go away! If you come near me again, I’ll call the cops.’

She moved half a step to the left in an attempt to get back to her meeting, but he took hold of her wrist. ‘I can’t let you do that.’

‘Can’t let me what? I’ll call the cops if I want to call the cops.’             

‘What are they going to arrest me for? Standing in a public place?’

‘Menacing, disturbing the peace, something,’ she said.

‘That will go down really well with your client,’ Ruger said. ‘I’ll just tell them that we’re having a lover’s tiff.’

‘A lovers—what the…? Who the hell are you? We’ve never met!’

‘Only you and I know that,’ he said.

The ultimate test of loyalty…

Fighting Fate

Ivy Dune knows how to survive.

Even when her paycheck-to-paycheck life is ripped from her by a vicious crimelord without a conscience, Ivy knows she’ll do whatever it takes to make it to the other side alive.

Dax Harrow has made a living off of blood and pain…both in the ring and out.

As an enforcer for the most lethal family in California, Dax knows the bounds of loyalty and will do anything to pay back the debt he owes them, no matter the cost.

When Ivy is placed in Dax’s care neither of them are prepared for the fallout.

As enemies close in around them, Ivy and Dax must be prepared for the fight of their lives.

Warning: Contains explicit language and imagery.

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Doing what’s necessary often means that you have to…

Risk It All

Blaser Warner has worked hard to put his past behind him. Building up his businesses and mending family bridges, he’s finally got his life back on track.

Brianna Wilcox was devastated when her heart was broken by her only love going to prison. Determined to carry on, she uprooted her life and cut all ties from her past. After suffering a horrific ordeal years later she shuts herself off from the world. To recover from the horror she endured Bri knows that there’s only one place she needs to be: home.

Blaser couldn’t stay away when he heard that Brianna was back in town. But being around her again brings old feelings to the surface. When Bri’s associations bring trouble to her door, old habits die hard and Blaser rallies to protect her.

All the promises he made are in jeopardy and the life he’s built is threatened when he has to fight battles he thought he had left behind. But he knows Brianna is the only woman for whom he will risk it all.

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When all else fails…

Take A Risk

Trapper. Risqué.

Two names is all that sex therapist Doctor Lyssa Cutler has, but it’s all she needs. Those two words reveal the name of a man and the name of the strip club that she’ll find him in. She might not have expected to find the solution to her stalker problem in such a place, but she does. In fact, Trapper turns out to be far more than just the man capable of tracking down her pursuer.

Colt Warner’s better judgement tells him that he should reject the job offered to him by the inquisitive doctor because he can tell that this sassy sexpot is going to be trouble. Being attracted to a client goes against his usual ethics, but playing by the rules has never been his strong suit.

Giving in to their sparking attraction lures reality into harsh focus. The stalker that brought them together doesn’t like the picture that the new couple presents and seems prepared to do anything to tear them apart.

Questions mount up, answers are elusive, and only one thing is clear, time is running out.

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A woman walks into a bar...

Explicit Instruction

Stranded, Flick seeks salvation. Instead, she finds herself living in a nightmare, under threat of physical and sexual assault, but Flick can see no way out.

Yet, an unexpected reprieve comes in the form of a stranger; a looming silhouette more terrifying than the evil that captured her. She learns that danger has an alias, Rushe. Abrupt, crude, and domineering he becomes her only hope for survival.

Stolen away Flick has to rely on Rushe’s instincts to keep her alive. But rescuing her saviour from his own demise changes things... or does it?

Flick entrusts her life to Rushe, but he still cannot bring himself to stand down from red-alert. There’s more going on than Flick understands and Rushe does not intend to give her any of the details.

Freedom becomes a distant memory. The further into the criminal plot she is drawn, the deeper her entanglement with Rushe becomes. Without him, Flick won’t survive, but to him she is nothing more than a liability.

The adventure she started by accident threatens her life and his; then Rushe does something unexpected and Flick knows it’s not only her life she is battling for, it’s her heart as well.

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While she’s playing the rush... he’s on tilt...

Explicit Detail

Integrating Flick into his life has given Rushe a new priority, to keep his woman where he wants her – safe and in his bed. But saving women who have no hope is a part of who he is, and it doesn’t take long for the next job to seek them out.

Rushe knows the rules, but Flick has never played the game from this side of the table before. Working in parallel, our couple go undercover to expose the crucial details of an intrigue that sinks deeper than they could have predicted.

Ready to get her hands dirty, Flick wades in, relishing the challenge. Except danger closes in on her from all sides, and Rushe has his own cards to play. They have to learn to work together before the job drives them apart.

But if their union is revealed, it could cost them their lives.

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History isn’t finished with them… yet.

Explicit Memory

The past that they’d hoped to outrun has chased them down, and now it wants payback.

To appease their debtors, they must delve into Rushe’s own history. As they come face to face with the situation that brought them together in the first place, Flick learns more about the man who she’s pledged her heart, and her body, to.

When danger encroaches, Flick will resort to whatever measures are necessary to achieve their goal, but could that mean sacrificing their relationship?

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Trust can’t reason with lust…

Reluctant Suspicion

Doing his job means going undercover to get close to their latest suspect. Choker has been claiming victims and leaving no trace of evidence behind. Blake Carson has done his homework, but nothing can prepare him for what he experiences when he walks into Ashton’s bar to assume his latest role.

The bar is Molly’s life, she’s the only person left in the family and so responsibility has fallen to her to keep the business going. But with the murders taking place so close to home, her staff and customers are getting edgy. She can’t afford to lose it all, but she can’t run the place alone. When Blake appears it seems that all of her prayers have been answered.

Brought closer by a terrifying event, Molly’s trust in this stranger grows. Blake knows that she’ll discover who he really is and never forgive him for his lies. But he just can’t make himself stay away from the enticing licensee he was supposed to be here to ensnare.

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