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By: Tee O'Fallon
Releasing
January 23, 2017
Entangled: Select Suspense
Entangled: Select Suspense
BLURB:
NYPD Detective Gray Yates has major trust issues. Protecting a serenely beautiful woman hiding enough secrets to take down an entire city wasn’t something he bargained for. She’s a loving single mother, hot as hell, and protecting her will test every ounce of his resolve.
Alex Romano
is being blackmailed by the Pyramid—an elusive international organization of
assassins every cop in the world is after. When Alex tries severing ties with
them they refuse to let her go. The darkly dangerous detective she’s
irresistibly drawn to is her only hope of staying out of jail. He just might be
her savior…or her downfall.
Despite efforts to maintain his professionalism, Gray can’t deny the fiery passion Alex ignites in him. In an explosive confrontation, Alex’s lies are revealed and Gray is faced with the most important decision of his life: trust the woman he’s falling in love with, or arrest her.
Alex still couldn’t believe the two men actually
tried to kidnap her baby.
She took a breath to steady her nerves. It didn’t
work, far from it. All it did was make her even more aware of the man sitting a
foot away. Every inhalation brought with it his wonderful aftershave. Woodsy,
yet fresh and clean.
“I have to call Nicky’s school.” Anything to get
her mind off thinking about last night. Despite her words to the contrary,
she’d wanted Gray to finish what they’d started. But that was a bad idea, one
she had to let go of.
Easier said than done.
Since giving birth to Nicky and having to take care
of a child alone, sex wasn’t something she thought of very much these days. But
she was thinking a lot about it now. The truth of the matter was, she began
thinking about it the day she started working for the NYPD.
The day she met Detective Gray Yates.
Alex hadn’t stayed with Nicky’s father long after
the physical violence started. She wasn’t the kind of woman to stay in a bad
situation. But after what she’d endured, she hadn’t wanted another man to make
love to her. Now the only one she wanted to touch her was the last man who ever
would. And the last man she should ever let touch her. There was too
much between them. She may have hurt him, but he’d been fully capable of
inflicting the same level of pain. And he did.
She turned to watch Gray’s handsome profile. Part
of her understood his viewpoint. He was one of the most principled cops in the
department. Even she’d picked up on that trait right away—and it was one of the
things she admired about him. It didn’t matter what her reasons were. The
bottom line was that she had spent money received from a Pyramid assassin, and
he thought she’d been paid to sleep with him and get confidential police intel.
Now she was nothing more to Gray than someone he
and the NYPD would use to take down a band of ruthless criminals. What happened
between them in her bedroom was nothing more than a mistake, a latent reminder
of feelings they may have had for each other. Feelings she still had. Ones he
didn’t.
“Tell the school—” Gray stopped, obviously
realizing Alex had been staring at him for some time. “What’s wrong?”
Aside from the obvious?
“Nothing.” She pulled her cell phone from her coat
pocket. There was no sense telling him the truth. He might be sitting right
next to her, but as far as anything personal went they were a thousand miles
apart.
“Wait.” Gray tipped his head toward the phone in
her hand. “Tell them you’re taking Nicky out of school for a couple of weeks,
but don’t tell them why. The Pyramid has resources sophisticated enough to tap
into your personal bank account, so we have to assume they can break into any
database. If you tell the school Nicky is sick, they’ll check all the
hospitals. When they don’t find him, they’ll come after him again at your
apartment.”
“Then isn’t the best story to tell them he’s home
sick?” Alex shifted in her seat to face him. “He won’t be there, so what does
it matter if I say that?”
“Nicky won’t be there, but you and I will.” Gray
paused to look at her. “The last thing I want is for them to break into your
place again.”
Alex widened her eyes. “What do you mean, you and
I will be at my apartment?”
Gray’s gaze flicked to the side-view mirror before
answering. “Until this is over, you have a roommate.”
“No.” She crossed her arms and shook her head.
“That isn’t possible. I won’t allow it.”
Because I don’t trust myself to be alone with you
ever again.
Gray chuckled. “You don’t have a say in the matter,
babe.”
She turned to face him. “The hell I don’t. And
don’t you dare babe me.” Last night was sheer torture. There was no way
she could live in her tiny apartment with a man she wanted more desperately
than she wanted to breathe.
“Too late,” Gray said in a cold voice. “It’s done.”
She grabbed his shoulder. “I do so have a say in
this. I’ll talk to Lt. Frye.”
“Negative.”
“Negative?” Alex shouted. She lowered her voice so
she didn’t wake Nicky, who was still sleeping comfortably in the car seat. “And
don’t speak to me like I’m one of your cop cronies. Why does it have to be
you?”
“Because not only won’t the department pay for your
protection, but I don’t trust anyone else to keep you safe.” He briefly met her
gaze, and there was anger there, but Alex couldn’t decipher the source of it.
He shouldn’t care about her, and he shouldn’t care about protecting her.
Ah, she thought. He’s not protecting me,
he’s protecting his cooperator.
Tee O'Fallon has been a federal agent for
twenty-two years, giving her hands-on experience in the field of law
enforcement that she combines with her love of romantic suspense. Tee's job
affords her the unique opportunity to work with the heroic and sexy men in law
enforcement on a daily basis. For Tee, research is the easy part!
I loved the first book of this series more than this one, but this was still very good. The hero and his back story were quite fascinating.
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