I don’t bring home women from the bar. It’s a choice. The last thing I need is some chick hanging around for weeks afterward, searching for a repeat performance that won’t ever happen.
I’ll flirt with them until the cows come home, though, because it’s what they want, and they pay nicely for a little attention.
The girl bites her lip and grabs the beers, making sure to lean over the bar as she does so. I look, because I’m not blind, but then I glance at Kandie when she elbows my side.
“You know that bunch?” She inclines her head toward the Night Eagle team, and I nod.
“Yeah, I do. Just not sure what they’re doing here. Didn’t expect to see most of them again anytime soon.”
When Ronin’s woman was taken from the parking lot of this bar by Wilmington’s most notorious organized crime family, I got involved. Not only because he’s my friend and he needed me, but also because Mickey’s son, Mick, was at the center of the bullshit and I took personal exception to the fact that he’d dared to do it all on my turf. I backed Ronin up, worked some of my magic with explosives, and helped rescue Olive safe and sound.
I knew there were a few members of the NES team that didn’t like my past or my attitude.
Doesn’t matter to me. They can all go fuck themselves, because I don’t answer to anyone. Not anymore.
“Well they’re a pretty bunch.” When I glance at Kandie, her dark brown eyes are locked and loaded on the two high-top tables. “Especially little Miss Converse Sneakers over there. That nerdy vibe she’s got goin’ on works for her.”
Kandie watches Sayward, and I follow her gaze without meaning to. My cock stiffens in my jeans, growing uncomfortable as hell, and I turn toward the wall so I can adjust myself without looking like an asshole.
Kandie chuckles. “Looks like I’m not the only one who noticed.”
With a sigh, I’m getting ready to face the music and find out what the NES crew wants with me, when a commotion at the end of the bar pulls my attention. I turn that way just in time to see one dude’s fist slam into another one’s face.
And then the bar erupts in absolute fucking madness.
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Diana Gardin is a wife of one and a mom of two. Writing is her second full-time job to that, and she loves it! Diana writes contemporary romance in the Young Adult and New Adult categories. She’s also a former elementary school teacher. She loves steak, sugar cookies, and Coke and hates working out.
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
1: Ronin
2: Olive
3: Ronin
4: Olive
5: Ronin
6: Ronin
7: Olive
8: Ronin
9: Olive
10: Ronin
11: Olive
12: Ronin
13: Olive
14: Ronin
15: Ronin
16: Olive
17: Ronin
18: Ronin
19: Olive
21: Olive
22: Olive
23: Ronin
24: Ronin
25: Olive
26: Ronin
27: Olive
28: Ronin
29: Olive
30: Olive
31: Ronin
32: Olive
Epilogue: Ronin
A Preview of “Mine to Save”
About the Author
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