Falling Hard
Bad Boys Undercover # 2
By: HelenKay Dimon
Releasing May 26, 2015
Avon Books
Falling Hard
Bad Boys Undercover
After a grueling assignment with the black ops force known as the Alliance, Weston Brown is craving downtime. Instead, he's pulled into his deadliest operation, in the one place he never wanted to see again. No-nonsense and so damn hot, Lexi Turner lied to get him to her mountain clinic in Pakistan. But the threat is terrifyingly real.
Lexi has been asking too many questions, drawing the wrong kind of attention. As soon as she lays eyes on West, she can tell he's quiet—yet tough—and has a rescue complex which will come in handy for going up against the world's most ruthless gunrunners.
Cut off from the rest of the Alliance, Lexi and West navigate the brutal terrain and a primal sexual attraction. Sticking around has never been West's way, but now he'll use every resource to keep Lexi by his side, safe from a killer who leaves no loose ends behind.
Breathing
in, forcing the adrenaline buzzing through him to slow, West eased
his grip on his gun.
The
whole attack probably took less than two minutes, but it dragged in
West’s head. He lived every second in slow motion. Always did.
Suddenly
he was facing down the barrel of a nasty assault weapon. An AK-103 or
something similarly problematic in the hands of someone aiming it at
his head. To add to the fun, this one had a grenade launcher attached
to it. Which was just fucking fabulous.
West’s
gaze traveled over the shaking arms to the white-knuckle grip on the
plastic. Then to her face. A brunette of the shockingly hot variety.
Not that he cared about that on a job.
He
didn’t like shooting women, but he would. He had. An enemy was an
enemy, and he waited to see if that’s the tack the
victim-turned-potential-attacker took.
“Two
roads diverged.” She spit out the not-so-random sentence, and the
dark energy spinning around the room eased.
“Well,
damn,” West whispered, stunned to hear the code from her.
Josiah
lowered his gun as he finished the agreed-upon signal. The one the
doctor provided and insisted on, citing faulty short-term memory and
a love or Robert Frost. “Sorry I could not travel both.”
She
blew out a long breath as the stiffness across her shoulders eased.
“Thank God you’re here.”
West
tagged her as American but definitely not male, which made little
sense under the circumstances. But she wasn’t firing at random, so
he considered that a bit of good luck.
Still,
a potential novice with a weapon was an invitation to get his nuts
blown off, and he sure as hell didn’t agree to that when he signed
Alliance’s employment contract. “Ma’am, I need to you put that
gun down.”
She
blinked a few times before her gaze went to her hands. It was as if
she forgot she took it off the dead guy when he dropped it. “Why?”
West
chalked the confusion up to the chaos of the last few minutes. Still,
shock and bullets rarely mixed well. “I don’t want to be shot.”
Her
chin came up as she nodded at him. “That makes two of us, so you
lower your weapon first.”
Okay,
chaos or not, her attempt to order him around was pretty fucking hot.
Kind of brave, too. “No.”
Not
dropping his guard, West took a second to study her. Long hair, half
in and half out of a ponytail, huge whiskey brown eyes, and the
sexiest pouty mouth he’d ever seen. He couldn’t make out her
frame under the olive pants and oversized long-sleeve tee but he
guessed curvy.
Not
just pretty but lose-the-ability-to-spell sexy. Of course that could
be the gun. Something about a woman holding a weapon turned him on,
sick twist that he was.
“I’m
not really giving you a choice,” he said, more to stall than
anything else.
Josiah
moved in, step by small step, as if not to scare or rattle her.
Pretty soon two trained men would almost be on top of her, and then
it was just a matter of time until one of them wrestled the weapon
away from her.
And
that’s how it would end because there was no way West was heading
back home after this and listening to the shit he would get from
Bravo if he let a hot brunette get the jump on him and take a shot.
He had a badass shoot-anything reputation to uphold.
“At
this distance I can blow your balls off,” she said,
looking
ready to do just that.
Then
again . . . “Okay, that’s a solid argument.”
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HelenKay Dimon is a former divorce attorney turned full-time romance author. Odd transition, right? She has sold over thirty novels, novellas and shorts to numerous publishers, including Kensington, Harlequin and Penguin, Samhain, Carina Press, and HarperCollins. Her nationally bestselling and award-winning books have been showcased in numerous venues and her books have twice been named "Red-Hot Reads" and excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine. But the best part of the job is never having to wear pantyhose.
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