An Impossible Promise by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2022-07-20T18:39:16+00:00

16

West of Providence Falls,

Present Day

Someone had hijacked Finn’s body.

It was a full-on mutiny; that was the only explanation. Because the clean-cut man Cora knew—the man with the warm eyes and the friendly smile and the neatly combed hair—wasn’t steering this ship tonight.

Cora gasped. Her brain short-circuited as she tried to make sense of what she was seeing.

He walked in alone. No entourage. Just a shirtless, chiseled powerhouse of a man, slowly easing his way through the screaming throng of people with smooth, masculine grace.

The crowd flocked toward him, pressing in on all sides until some of the bikers had to intervene and push everyone back.

“Finn,” Cora whispered hoarsely.

But everyone kept chanting, “Jack.”

She watched in stunned shock as he made his way toward the cage.

Finn was The Jackrabbit? Finley Walsh, the guy who blushed when she gave him compliments, was an underground, cage-fighting legend? It was impossible. Cora felt like Alice down the rabbit hole, as if she’d slipped into some weird, alternate reality. It was unsettling to see him like this. Gone was the custom-tailored suit, the pressed, collared shirt and the designer silk tie. Now all he wore was simple black fight gear: shorts and a pair of open-fingered gloves. This was a boss-level version of the man she knew. A lean, honed, muscular version with six-pack abs and—

Hold on, was that a tattoo?

At the cage door Finn twisted his torso and Cora caught sight of his back. A Latin phrase in wicked black font scrolled across his broad shoulders. She couldn’t decipher it; the looping words were as foreign as this fevered dream she’d stumbled into.

The reality of what was about to happen suddenly hit her like a freight train. Overcome with panic and fear for Finn’s safety, Cora began cataloging all the possible ways she could break him out of there before he got himself killed. The exits were blocked. There were too many people between her and Finn. If Meat started beating him to death, she wouldn’t even be able to draw her gun to defend him because there were too many civilians in the way, not to mention the chain-link barrier.

For the first time in all the years she could remember, Cora was furious at Finn.

How could he willingly be so stupid to put himself in this situation? And for what, just to buy her some time to talk to a cranky, sexist jerk like Eli Shelton? Cora wanted to grab Finn and shake him until his teeth rattled, she was so mad. She really ought to be angry with Eli. He was the one who thought it would be entertaining to toss Finn into a cage with the bone crusher. But Cora wasn’t going to waste her energy on someone as stupid as Eli Shelton. Finn, on the other hand, should’ve known better. He should never have agreed to this. He may have been some legendary fighting champion from the past, but that didn’t mean he could hold his own tonight. Just looking at the freak show Finn was up against made her sick to her stomach.

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