Alexandra’s older brother died the night he graduated. That day changed everything for her. No longer was she the party girl. No longer did she care about being popular and no longer was her family the happy unit she always thought existed. The only person who could help her heal is the same person who loved her brother as much as she did, his best friend. She only hopes to keep her entire heart from breaking when Jesse will move on, and she knows he will. After Ethan died, Jesse excelled at basketball, partying, and girls. He used it all to turn his emotions off, but the irony was that Alex was the only person who could do that for him. She helped him forget, but she was the one person he shouldn’t be with because the secrets he knows could shatter everything. They could shatter her.
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New school. New friendships. New life. Not so much. Alexandra is pissed about her parents abandoning her. She’s beyond pissed that her friends did the same. She’s enraged because things are unclear about her brother’s death now. So her first stop is at Jesse’s house to demand answers. She wants to know why her brother was friends with the criminal crowd before he died and she knows he holds the answers. But when she sees him, she doesn’t get the answers she expected. Instead, she finds out that their chemistry never faded and soon heats up again! Some habits die hard. Soon Jesse and Alex are back to their ways of sneaking around. He’s a near-celebrity at school and she doesn’t want to deal with the backlash of being his girlfriend. Alex is tired of being hurt so she’s learned the lesson not to confide and lean on others. However, she can’t seem to help herself when it comes to Jesse Hunt. The big question isn’t if she will survive if their relationship goes public, it’s if she will survive when the real truths about her family and brother come out? Or when she learns that Jesse knows more than what he’s told her?
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Emma decided to skip the gym and went home early. It was the last easy decision she made because she found her roommate being raped by the boyfriend. She had two choices. Call the cops and be killed by his family’s mafia connections or kill him first and hope to survive. There was no choice to her. She killed the bastard first and went to the one person who could protect her. Carter Reed. He’s a weapon for the rivaling mafia family, but he’s also Emma’s secret. Not only was he best friends with her brother, but she’s the reason he became that weapon in the first place. This book is not for the faint of heart.
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“Cole.”
A faint grin teased across his face, but it was gone the next instant. He turned from the window and regarded the one who had taken him away. “Carter.”
“You’re back.”
“I am.”
The two regarded each other. They were opposites in some ways, but so alike in others. While Carter had wolf-like blue eyes, blonde hair, and chiseled cheekbones that sent the media in a frenzy, Cole had a smoldering darker look to him. Dark eyes, dark hair, and a dark aura that clung to him. Carter could move as a ghost, but Cole had lived as a ghost.
His chest rose in an even breath.
Carter frowned, studying him in return. Then he commented, “You’ve grown.”
“So have you.”
He flashed a perfect smile, feeling a spark of camaraderie for a moment. “People know my face. They don’t know yours.”
Cole nodded and turned back to the window. The city was spread out before them. A corner of his mouth curved up. “That’s ours.”
Carter joined him at the window. He stood in a similar pose with his hands in his pockets and both looked outward. He said, “It’s yours, Cole.”
“No.” He shook his head. “You created this. You brought the family where they are. They followed you and you’ve given them something I never could’ve.”
“You’re a Mauricio. The family is yours now.”
“Because you’re out?” Cole glanced at him, narrowing his eyes.
Carter grinned. He recognized that look. It was pensive and haunting at the same time. He had grown up with it. He had seen it staring back at over conference tables, in back rooms when he’d be given his assignment and gun, and it had gone away. He was glad it was back now. “I love your family. I followed your grandfather and I followed your father. I have worked beside your uncles and your cousins, but it’s your blood. It’s your line that makes the family. I’m glad your back. It was time.”
“They killed my father, my mother, my sister, my two brothers.”
“They didn’t kill you.”
“They’ll try.”
Carter nodded. “The peace was never permanent. It was shaky at best.”
“No, you’re out.”
“Cole,” he started to argue.
“You’re out, Carter. You bought your way out to protect your woman. I won’t let you come back in and lose that life.”
“It’s not your decision.”
“It is.” Cole started to leave. As he did, he stopped at the door. “I’ll take my place and that means it’s my decision who is in and who is out. You saved my life, but I’m saving yours this time. You won’t be allowed back in.” Then he left and Carter was left alone. He grinned, shaking his head.
He had missed Cole Mauricio.
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