Hands Tied (Book 2) by Zoey Parker

Author:Zoey Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mafia romance, romantic suspense, interracial bad boy romance, wedding and pregnancy romance, marriage mistake romance, dark romance, secret baby romance, mob romance, hitman romance
Publisher: Sopris Page Press
Published: 2019-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

GOING TO WORK WAS SUDDENLY very tense. Before, I’d been in reconnaissance mode. I was gathering information and clues, and it was enough to distract me from the reality of what I was doing. Now, though, we had all of the information we needed, and all I could do was wait it out.

Zico refused to tell me which of the three dates the ambush would happen on, so I just had to continue going to work as if nothing unusual was going on, as if I wasn’t about to get my partner fired from his job.

I wondered who my new partner would be and whether Sergeant Hale would make me move offices. Gary had been on the force for a long time, so he had a really nice office. I didn’t want to be partnered with another newbie and shoved down in the basement.

“Grasso, what’s up with you?”

Gary’s voice pulled me from my thoughts, and for a brief second, I was worried he had read my mind. Of course, I knew that was ridiculous, so I composed myself as quickly as I could, and turned to him.

“Just a case of the Mondays,” I said.

“Rough weekend? Or was it a good weekend and now it’s especially hard to be stuck in this teeny office?”

I felt myself blush slightly, remembering how Zico and I had spent Saturday night and Sunday morning... and Sunday night.

“The latter,” I replied.

“Well, only four more days left before the next weekend,” he said, laughing.

Don’t be nice to me, I thought. It’s too late for that. Don’t joke with me and be my friend. You’re a criminal. These words echoed in my head over and over. I tried to commit them to heart. No matter how nice Gary was being to me today, he deserved to be caught. He deserved whatever was coming his way.

“Do you have any plans this weekend?” he asked.

“This weekend?”

“Yes,” he said, nodding. “That is what I meant when I said ‘this weekend.’ ”

“Oh. Uhmm... no. No plans.”

The real answer was much more complicated. Zico and I had taken to spending most weekends holed up in my apartment under the pretense of plotting Gary’s capture. However, by the end of the night, we were surrounded by takeout packages and were typically in a state of undress trying to burn off those calories the best way we knew how. Of course, I couldn’t say any of that to Gary.

He nodded a few times, his lips flattening into a straight line. Then, he spoke, his words coming out all at once in a jumble. “Maybe you’d want to get a drink or something?”

He’d spoken so quickly, and I was so surprised by it, that my brain didn’t comprehend what he’d actually said.

“What?” I asked, swiveling my chair to face him, my head turned to the side.

Gary’s face was red and splotchy. It looked like he’d been out in the sun too long. He took a deep breath and tried again.

“Maybe you’d want to go with me

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