Big Easy Temptation by Shayla Black

Author:Shayla Black [Black, Shayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-04-11T09:28:19+00:00

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Dax scrubbed a hand down his face. He’d been wrong. So fucking wrong. Wrong about everything.

“Another?” The bartender frowned like that wasn’t the best idea in the world.

The bartender hadn’t gotten his soul ripped from his body and pissed on by the woman he loved. “Yes. Make it a double.”

The bartender took a deep breath and then poured the bourbon. His friends preferred Scotch, but Dax liked the nasty shit. He liked the burn. It shouldn’t be easy and smooth. Liquor should hurt.

What was he doing? What had he been doing? He’d kicked up a hornet’s nest and it had bitten him. He felt an actual ache in his bones.

He took a long drink and ignored his trilling cell phone. It would be his sister or one of his friends calling to make sure he was all right.

He wasn’t fucking all right. He would never be all right again.

As he’d been sitting here he’d had to ask himself the question he’d been avoiding for a long time. He’d been so sure that he could find justice for his dad. At first he’d intended to clear his father’s name. Now, according to Roman—and his own mother—his father really had been involved with other women. There were pictures of him hurting a girl. And because he’d gone to Holland, they’d almost gotten out and ruined Gus’s career and his mother’s life all over again.

Had he known his father at all? He sure as hell hadn’t known Holland.

What would his father want? If he’d been half a man he would want his family safe. He would want them to heal and go on living, even if it meant he never got justice.

Maybe it was time for Dax to start thinking about moving on, too. He would cancel his appointments at the prison. He would walk away and maybe this wouldn’t touch his family again. Maybe.

He glanced down at his watch. Mad’s plane was picking him up in an hour. Not that he had any reason to go to Vegas now.

Or should he? Maybe he should head to Vegas and fuck as many pretty girls as he could handle before he reported back to base and his ship.

He would be out to sea for six months. It might be enough time to forget how she smelled, how her arms had felt around him.

“Hey, you.” A feminine voice pulled him from his reverie. Courtney. She was wearing a short skirt and a too-tight blouse, her raven hair flowing around her shoulders. She was about as far from Holland Kirk as a woman could get in every way. Courtney didn’t give a real shit about her career. It was a way station between college and getting married. She certainly wasn’t calculating enough to set him up for a payday.

Courtney liked him. She’d made no qualms about it. The moment he’d met her he’d known he could have her if he wanted. She was sweet and had always looked at him like he was ten feet tall.

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