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Read the action-packed finale of the USA Today bestselling Red Stone Security series!
He broke her heart.
Graysen’s
betrayal nearly destroyed Isa a year ago. Now that she’s working for
Red Stone Security, she’s managed to piece her life back together after a
rough year and a broken heart. Then he appears back in her life and
makes it clear he’s not going anywhere until she gives them a second
chance. A chance she refuses to take.
Now he’s back to claim what’s his.
Graysen’s
never gotten over Isa and he knows he never will. It’s his fault she
walked away, but he can’t seem to let her go. He quit his job with the
CIA and called in every favor he had to get hired by Red Stone Security
just to be near her again. But Isa doesn’t care that he’s desperate to
make things right between them—she wants nothing to do with him. He
doesn’t blame her, but he’s not willing to give her up. When they’re
cornered by lethal terrorists, everything changes. Graysen and Isa will
have to find a way to work together if they want to survive. Only then
will he be able to convince her to claim the chance at happiness the
past stole from them.
Lethal Game Excerpt
Copyright 2017 © Katie Reus
“Don’t
give me that look,” Graysen snarled as he slid into the seat across
from Harrison. He’d been waiting for that CEO to leave.
Harrison
had started to respond when the bartender who’d been serving Graysen
earlier approached the table. “You leaving the bar?”
“Yeah,
joining a friend.” He tried not to snarl at her, since she was just
doing her job. “I’ll close out my tab.” He pulled out a few bills and
left them on the table. “Keep the change.”
Her eyes widened
slightly but she just nodded and pocketed the money—then not so subtly
left a piece of paper with her phone number on it in its place. “I get
off in an hour.”
He didn’t respond as she left, but crumpled the
paper up once he was sure she wasn’t looking and tossed it into the
empty ice bucket. He didn’t want anyone but Isa.
“What were you thinking, showing up here?” Harrison’s voice was razor sharp.
“I
had to see her.” Graysen knew he’d be meeting with Isa tomorrow, but
the urge to get just a glimpse of her again in person was too much. The
woman was his obsession. After a year of no contact, no hearing her
voice, he was at his breaking point.
Harrison scrubbed a hand over his face, the action out of place on the normally stoic man. “She’s going to be pissed tomorrow.”
“She’ll
get over it.” Isa had to. She had to forgive him. He couldn’t live with
anything less. He wouldn’t. “And I’m bringing you a huge job.” Graysen
had gone to Keith Caldwell instead of Harrison, asking Harrison’s
father—also the founder of Red Stone Security—to hire him now that he’d
left the Agency. He was more than qualified, but he didn’t just want a
job. He wanted to specifically work with Isa. So he’d brought an
exclusive government contract Red Stone wouldn’t want to turn down. It
was practically tailored for Isa’s expertise. If she was forced to work
with Graysen, he could remind her how good they’d been together. And he
could work on getting her to forgive him. Which…was the biggest problem.
“Yeah, and you never let me forget it,” Harrison muttered.
Graysen
lifted a shoulder. He wasn’t sorry. He’d do anything to get Isa back.
Once she’d left him he’d gone into a downward spiral. After trying to
get her to forgive him, apologizing too many times to count only to be
shut out, he’d drowned himself in vodka for about a month until he’d
realized he was being a giant pussy. He wasn’t just going to let her go.
So he’d spent the last few months working on getting a huge contract to
bring to Red Stone when he left the CIA. It had been a balancing act,
getting this contract while still working for the government. But a lot
of people owed him favors and he’d cashed in a ton of them. She was that
important to him. Hell, she was the most important thing to him.
“If she refuses to work with you—”
“She won’t.”
Harrison
eyed him over the top of his beer, his expression unconvinced. Harrison
was a couple years younger than Graysen but he’d been a damn good agent
back when they’d been in Black Ops together. They hadn’t worked
together often, but Harrison was one of the few people Graysen truly
respected. The man had a solid code of honor and he was a patriot. Maybe
more of a Boy Scout than Graysen, but that wasn’t necessarily a bad
trait.
Televisions blared inane sports bullshit above them and
people were talking and laughing with no concern for anyone around them.
Whereas he knew how many people were at the bar right now, the specific
layout of the restaurant, how many exits there were—which were
closest—and how many people were outside the window. No doubt Harrison
could detail all that information as well.
“Mara’s pissed about the whole situation,” Harrison said.
“You told her?” He snapped out the words louder than he’d planned, but no one around them seemed to notice.
“Yep.” No apology from Harrison either.
“Is
she going to tell Isa?” Because Harrison had made it clear to Graysen
that Isa meant a lot to Mara. And Mara had been a spook too. Graysen
wasn’t exactly sure which branch but he guessed MI6.
“No, but she wants to.”
“After tomorrow it won’t matter.”
“Look…just
don’t get your hopes up about this.” For the first time since Graysen
had known Harrison, the guy actually looked and sounded concerned. For
him.
“About what?”
“About Isa. She’s never mentioned you,
never mentioned an ex, nothing. And what you did was… I don’t know if
you can come back from that.”
Graysen didn’t respond, just turned
to stare out the window at the passing traffic and the bright lights of
downtown Miami. Yeah, he’d screwed up good. That was the understatement
of the century.
He’d infiltrated her father’s business, lied
about who he was, seduced her and broken her heart—and inadvertently
gotten her father killed.
If it was the last damn thing he did, he was going to make things right between them.
About the Authors
Katie
Reus is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Red
Stone Security series, the Darkness series and the Deadly Ops series.
She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she
pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance
almost as much as she loves writing it.
However, she didn’t
always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times,
she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not
long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her
days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.
For more information on Katie please visit her website:
www.katiereus.com. Also find her on twitter @katiereus or visit her on facebook at:
www.facebook.com/katiereusauthor.
