Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Greer
had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking
whiskey and not saying a word.
this one requiring a whole lot fewer clothes. And that was when she knew. She
wanted him. Badly. But the morose Hayes was too busy thinking about his sins to
see what was right in front of his face—Ares.
Downy again that he should’ve stayed away. Maybe if he hadn’t done the stupid
calendar, he wouldn’t be questioning every single woman’s intentions.
to stay away, he would’ve been able to do his job a little better. But seeing
her with a knife to her throat, in the middle of a building set to blow, made
his usually well-wired brain start to malfunction.
Nobody was allowed to scare her, either. Not and live to tell the tale.
Those are the words that Calloway Alvarez chants to herself as she watches all the large men gather into the small room where she’ll be doing the interviews for her employer—Hero Magazine.
Honestly, she’s convinced herself that she can’t accomplish the task at hand.
That is until she hears his voice, and her head turns to see him standing there.
Louis Spurlock. Greek god. SWAT officer. Keeper of her secrets. Ultimate fantasy. Man who will break her heart.
***
Louis Spurlock has been playing nice.
He’s been biding his time, giving Calloway the space she thinks she needs.
But then he sees her taking photos of his friends in all states of dress, talking to them all as if they’re best friends, and that little thread of control he’d been managing to hold onto unravels.
Let’s change it up, she says. And the moment the words are out of her mouth, he’s stripping to his skivvies, and throwing out a challenge while he’s at it.
Calloway won’t know what hit her when he’s through playing.
But he does know one thing for sure. When it ends, she’ll be his.
when he was a teenager.
military all in the same day—signing his life away in more ways than one. Fast
forward six weeks and he’s in bootcamp learning that he’s going to be a father
while also learning that not only is he going to be deployed, but it’s going to
stay that way for a year.
saw eye to eye on after that. He honestly wasn’t sure why he even slept with
her in the first place.
with her. Because the real woman he’s in love with, her twin sister, Dillan,
won’t give him the time of day.
officer that he can be, and still he’s not good enough.
Granted, she knew that he hadn’t meant to leave like he did, unknowingly and
unconsciously leaving his daughter behind, but that didn’t change the fact that
he had.
now as she did when he chose the wrong sister to take to his bed.
his wouldn’t be untouchable.
and decides that enough is enough, what’s a girl to do?
over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a
donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
in her favorite chair reading.
Great State of Texas.