Synopsis:
From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the third book in the bestselling Eagle Elite Series...
“As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.”
Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandanato family. Now that he's been given a second chance to right a wrong--he refuses to let his own selfishness stand in the way. The only problem? He's not fully in possession of his heart, so when Mil De Lange, the girl who's innocence he stole, and heir to the worst of the worst mafia families in the US, asks him for a favor. He actually says yes, not realizing that that one yes has the power to destroy them all.
Mil's been in love with Chase as long as she can remember, but as the years went by, the love turned to hate, and now that he's agreed to help her, she's wondering if she made a fatal error. Because Chase isn't a teenager anymore. He's a hot blooded male, bent on owning every part of her body and soul, and willing to kill anyone in his path who dares stand in the way.
It's time for secrets to finally be revealed...but make no mistake, it's going to take a lot of bloodshed for those truths to be discovered.
You've never read a New Adult Mafia story like this before...loyalties will be tested, lovers reunited, and friendships obliterated. Welcome to the Family. Blood in--No out.
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ENTICE
by Rachel Van Dyken
Nixon
I checked the time on my cell and leaned
against the wall. The desert heat was not in any way helping my already-tense
mood and irritated disposition. A guy walked by, flicking his cigarette into
the dirt. Note to self: you know you're tense as hell when you’re halfway
tempted to grab said cigarette and suck the nicotine dry from the remains.
And I didn’t even smoke.
Shhhit.
My head hurt, my muscles were sore, and Trace
was pissed. I closed my eyes and leaned back against the building.
“Hey there.” A flirty voice interrupted my
self-inflicted torture session. I opened one eye, then two. A blond-haired girl
in six-inch heels and something I can only assume at one point use to be a
shirt, hanging over her shoulder, walked into my personal space. Her
shirt-dress thing barely met her thighs.
“Yes?” I kept my sunglasses on. If I took
them off and glared, she’d probably run screaming down the street, and I wasn’t
into scaring females… at least not in that way. I knew I looked
downright pissed as hell.
“Just thought you looked lonely.” She lifted
her shoulder and offered a teasing smile. Did that really work on other guys?
“You thought wrong,” I said simply. “I’m
holding the wall up — like Samson.”
“Samson?” She looked around as if waiting for
another man to appear.
“From the Bible,” I clarified.
“The what?”
“Gotta love Vegas,” I muttered under my
breath. “Look, I don’t want any.”
“Any what?” She ran a manicured nail down my
chest, biting down on her lip at the same time. I could only imagine her point
was to get me to stare at her lips, but all I felt was irritation. Damn Chase
and Mil. I just wanted to go to bed, but I needed to talk with him before
tomorrow.
“Sex.” My voice clipped. “I. Don’t. Want.
Any.”
“But—”
She twirled a piece of blond- hair in her fingers.
“I’m gay.”
“Right.” She snorted.
“I’m into men.”
“Oh really?” She closed the distance between
us. Just as I was ready to seriously put my hands on her and push, I felt an
arm wrap around my shoulder.
“Hey there, hot stuff.” Tex said in a low
voice as his hand grabbed my ass, cupping it with a little too much enthusiasm.
“You ready?”
I ground my teeth together and forced a
smile. “Yup.”
“Oh…” The girl stepped back. “Um, sorry, you
guys, uh, enjoy your night.” She pushed past Tex so fast I was afraid she was
going to teeter off her heels and get hit by a taxi.
“Tex.” I seethed.
“Hmm?” He took off his sunglasses and tilted
his head as the girl hurried away.
“You can take your hand off my ass now.”
“Why? Afraid you like it too much?”
I pushed against him.
“Just embrace your feelings!” He shouted,
earning the attention of a family walking by with their two little kids.
I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and threw
him few feet away from me, trying my damnedest not to smile.
“Admit it. You keep me around for comic
relief.” Tex nodded with a smirk.
“I admit nothing.” I lost the war against
smiling and started laughing. “But I do keep your ass away from Campisi, so
remember that next time you start yelling about me being your lover.”
“True.” Tex grinned. “Oh, and P.S., don’t
knock it till you try it.”
“P.S.,” I repeated in the same voice. “Still
pissed at you for screwing over my sister.”
“Yeah well.” Tex sobered. “It’s for the
best.”
“Breaking her heart and bringing in whores is
what’s best for her?”
Tex lifted his hands into the air. “Look, I
didn’t say my methods were sound or that they were intelligent, just let us
deal with it, okay? We’re big kids.”
“Kids.” I snorted. “That about sums it up.”
A town car pulled up next to the curb. Chase
got out and then held out his hand to Mil. My eyes narrowed; she looked
different. Happier.
Her mom had just died, and she'd survived a
bombing.
And she was smiling like the Taliban had just
declared world peace.
Chase gripped her so tight that I saw the
white of his knuckles.
I tilted my head, still watching them when
Tex said. “Dude, you get laid?”
“Tex,” I snapped. “Go get something for their
luggage.”
“But—”
“Go.”
Tex flipped me off, but ended up jogging over
to the main entrance while I inspected both Mil and Chase. “I’m not saying this
to be an ass—”
“Here we go.” Mil crossed her arms.
Chase waited.
I licked my lips and tried to appear
indifferent. “But if you guys start screwing each other now, I may have to shoot one or both of you. It’s not the time to play house,
got it?”
“Play house,” Chase repeated in a deadpan
voice as he dipped his free hand into his back pocket, most likely clenching a
pair of brass knuckles.
“I know it’s your honeymoon,” I continued.
“But this [P1] little scenario
you’ve got going on with the whole hot and cold is going to have to wait until
everyone’s safe. So Chase, keep it in your pants for once in your life, and
Mil, stop trying to seduce the poor kid, alright? It’s like dangling a damn fry
in front of a seagull.”
“Who’s a fry?” Tex asked, pulling the luggage
cart with him.
“Mil.”
“Are we eating dinner or something? Because I
have to admit,” Tex leaned against the cart, “I’m freaking starving.” He eyed
Chase and Mil. “Then again, I’m sure you both are too. All those
extracurricular really take it out of ya.”
Chase took off his sunglasses, his face
twisting in irritation and annoyance, no smile. Nothing. He was pissed.
“Chase,” I said slowly. “You know I’m right.
You’re the best I have. I need your focus to be on The Family. Your family.
Then you can screw all you want, okay?”
Mil looked like she wanted to punch me in the
face. Chase took a step forward, but she stopped him.
“Good talk.” I exhaled. “Chase, I’ll see you
down in the bar in a half-hour, okay? We have business to discuss. Mil, you can
go find the girls. They’re having dinner out by the pool.”
Nobody moved.
After a few seconds of tense silence where I
was pretty sure Chase was trying to convince himself not to strangle me to
death, Tex cleared his throat and pointed to the luggage. “You guys need help,
then?”
“Yeah,” Chase croaked. “Thanks.”
We loaded them up and sent them on their way.
“Tell me,” Tex asked once we were walking
back toward the bar. “Is your only goal to see how far you can push Chase
before he kills you in your sleep?”
Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband and their snoring Boxer, Sir Winston Churchill. She loves to hear from readers!
Super fabulous covers ;)
ReplyDeleteYes, they are. And amazing stories! Can't wait to read the third book! :D
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