Mercenary
Deadliest Lies #2
By Michele Mannon
Genre: Sexy Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Synopsis
Sometimes in
life, choices just aren't part of the plan. When fate interferes and bulldozes
right over you.
That's how I felt the first time I saw him. Standing in my kitchen, soaking wet, hotter than a man has the right to be, and holding a knife.
Declan's cold, stone-cold. I can't help but want him. His presence stirs up some raw emotion within me. He seems so...alone. But is he here to kill me or save me?
He's the one man I should never want...and the one I can never forget.
That's how I felt the first time I saw him. Standing in my kitchen, soaking wet, hotter than a man has the right to be, and holding a knife.
Declan's cold, stone-cold. I can't help but want him. His presence stirs up some raw emotion within me. He seems so...alone. But is he here to kill me or save me?
He's the one man I should never want...and the one I can never forget.
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Excerpt
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SET UP: Madelyn
is in hiding from an unknown threat and she calls the one man who can help her,
a handsome, frightening stranger who has already helped her once. A man who
left her his phone number in case of an emergency. The man of her fantasies who
is now standing before her.
***
“Why (call) me?”
he asks.
I blink, his
question catching me by surprise. “I, um, needed you . . .” I forget what I’m
about to say, forget everything as I feel his hand skim across my abdomen.
Oh my God. His
touch is just as I imagined it . . . maybe slightly rougher with the friction.
“This why?”
“This why…?” I
swallow hard. It’s like I’m an open book and he’s reading the naughty, dirty
descriptions I’ve written about him…about us. And now, he’s putting my words,
my desires, into action.
“You called me?”
I gasp, as his
palm presses against my skin, firmly like there’s no mistaking it’s there yet
not hard enough to be a punishing touch. “I don’t know what to say.”
“Just as well.”
He slides his hand lower, his fingertips dipping beneath my bikini bottom.
Oh. OH.
This is what you
want from me? To get you off with my fingers. To make you come from my touch.
Make you whimper my name and beg for more. Finish what that punk couldn’t
manage to do?”
My mind races in
a mad dash with my heartbeat. Is this what I want? Now, under these
circumstances? “I can’t whimper your name,” I remind him. “I don’t know your
name.” And there he goes again…what does he mean by “that little punk?”
I stiffen with
surprised excitement mixed in with a hell of a lot of well-earned nervousness
when he rubs me there, circling around my sensitive hood and causing a tingle
to spread throughout my body.
But he doesn’t
stop there. Oh. My. God. He’s moving lower, arching his finger so the tip
pushes into my entrance…penetrating me a fraction of an inch.
“I don’t know
anything about you,” I whisper, “and you wrote to call in case of an emergency.
I have no one else to turn to…”
He freezes,
suddenly tense. Then he shakes his head. Abruptly, his hand is gone, leaving me
cold where a second ago I was warm. Wickedly, wildly warm. With a swift kick,
he knocks my duffle bag out of his way and stalks into the bathroom.
I hear water
running, and I bite my lip.
Nothing is
clear. Everything is twisted…even my allowing him to touch me like that. What’s
come over me?
Minutes pass
before he reenters the bedroom. His hair is wet yet again. But his manner is
different. Frigid. Ice cold, as he stands beside the bed, scowling down at me.
“What’s going to
happen next is your own fault.”
I blink,
fighting against the glare from the lamp that’s reflecting off the cool metal
object he’s holding in his hand.
Shit. Oh. Shit.
He’s picked up
the knife.
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Meet the Author
Michele Mannon
creates characters who are far from perfect; who are likely to be knee-deep in
trouble, heart-first in love and at wits’ end when life unexpectedly,
unequivocally turns to hell. Her debut series, Worth the Fight, received two
Romantic Times Magazine Top Picks.
Her new sexy romantic suspense series with St. Martin’s Press, Deadliest Lies,
releases in August 2016, beginning with ROGUE, a story about what happens
when your own organization sends a hit man after you mistakenly,
heart-wrenchingly kill your lover.
Michele lives in Pennsylvania but likes traveling to exotic places, including
the NJ shore. She’s fond of Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Lattes, quick-witted,
Irish-accented men, a good story, and lots and lots of laughter.
For more
information about Michele, please visit her website: http://www.michelemannon.com
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