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ONE MORE NIGHT WITH YOU
Blue Dynasty #5
Lisa Marie Perry
Releasing March 1st, 2016
Harlequin Kimani
Former DEA agent Josephine de la Peña loved Zaf Ahmadi once—and she's got the bullet scar to prove it. No wonder she holds a grudge against her hacker ex. But now, just as Joey's preparing for a new job with the Las Vegas Slayers, Zaf reappears, insisting she's in danger. The sexual pull between them is still as intense, and liable to hurt more than any gunshot.
Even if Joey could forgive him for the botched drug bust that got her injured, Zaf can't forgive himself. Obsessively hunting for the criminals who killed his cousin warped his judgment. To protect Joey, he suggests he pose as her boyfriend. As long as he can keep emotional distance, he can keep her safe. Until the case presents him with a choice: pursue the vengeance he craves—or try to turn one smoldering night into so much more…
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“Shy, Zaf?”
He didn’t
find the boldness in her tone authentic but accepted the words as a gauntlet
thrown. He wasn’t shy; he was desperate and venturing into trouble he couldn’t
mend.
Zaf leaned,
angled his head, and she met him halfway. Her glossy lips were slippery under
his kiss, teasing him as if she was flicking a feather across his face.
“Can’t seem
to make a solid landing there, can you?” she uttered against his mouth.
The almost and not
quite and close misses were a game to her.
But not to
him. For Zaf, this was life and death.
“Joey…”
“Shh. Tell me
something. You hacked Willa Smart’s company to get to me. Was it for this, for
a kiss from a woman you used to screw?”
He’d done it
because he was her protector. Compromising a matchmaker’s compatibility program
was the means he’d taken to fulfill his obligation to her. Even if he’d lost
his morality, he still possessed a sense of duty—whether he wanted it or not.
“You were more than that. You’ve always known it.”
“Have I?”
The love that
had once breathed between them had been inconvenient and confusing, yet the
realest element in either of their lives. It had struck them unexpectedly.
Neither was willing to let it go, and for that they were both to blame. Because
something that good couldn’t last. Not for people like them who’d done what
they had.
“I got to you
because I’m on a job,” he told her. Yeah, it was a vague explanation, but he
wouldn’t divulge particulars now. “The kiss is because I can’t fight it. I’ve
thought about you constantly since that night. It hasn’t been never-ending
death, but it’s been a never-ending mindfuck.”
“They put you
down, didn’t they? DC?”
“It needed to
happen.”
“Down deep,
Zaf. You didn’t turn up at your parents’ place in Jersey or even in Pakistan.
There was talk that you were dead but I didn’t think that. I knew you wouldn’t
get time, either, that they’d rather have you on reserve than in a cell. About
a year after… What I’m trying to say is I tried to bring you back and I
couldn’t find you.”
His mind spun
through the past five years. The US government had dragged his ass up for a few
missions that needed a sharpshooter of his caliber on the front line, but had
thrown him back afterward at his request. He was freelance—off record, off the
FBI’s payroll, damn near a ghost. He wanted it that way.
“Why’d you
want to bring me back?”
“To ask you
why you went dirty. You cut a deal with those bastards when I thought we were
on the same side. You killed me when you turned, damn it.”
So she still
believed he’d defected to the drug-funneling terrorists he’d been quietly
hunting since they’d captured, tortured and murdered his cousin eight years
ago. The feds hadn’t gone out of their way to clean up his image, but what did
it matter now? There was so much that Joey didn’t know. But she’d been a thread
in a web that was bigger than DEA and even now it was necessary to lead her
with lies.
“The kiss,”
she said finally as fresh tears welled. “Don’t fight it.”
There was
something he didn’t altogether trust about her spurring him on, but as he’d
said—he couldn’t fight it. Nor would he try. Giving her what she provoked, he
let go of her hand to hold her head steady. She yielded, opening her mouth to
bring him home.
Lisa Marie Perry
encounters difficult fictional men and women on a daily basis. She writes
contemporary romance fiction with plenty of sizzle, energy and depth. Flawed,
problematic, damaged characters are welcome. Her tales feature exciting
multicultural mash-ups, sexy guy-next-door heroes and powerful larger-than-life
alphas who are brought to their knees by the love of complicated women.
According
to Lisa Marie, an imagination is a terrible thing to ignore. So is a good
cappuccino. After years of college, customer service gigs and a career in
caregiving, she at last gave in to buying an espresso machine and writing to
her imagination’s desire. She lives in America’s heartland and she has every
intention of making the Colorado Mountains her new stomping grounds. She drives
a truck, enjoys indie rock, collects Medieval literature, watches too many
comedies, has a not-so-secret love for lace and adores rugged men with a little
bit of nerd.
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