Harlequin Kimani Romance March 2016 Box Set by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460395240
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

Zaf Ahmadi was a hollow man. Selling his soul for the sake of a vendetta had been a necessary trade—one he didn’t resent and wouldn’t apologize for. The end—avenging his cousin Raphael’s murder—would justify the means.

But Joey should’ve never been caught in the middle of his war. She was his to protect, and he blamed himself for hurting her. Firing his weapon in an Arizona parking garage hadn’t been a mistake, but striking her...loving her...had.

Tried and convicted as an adult on criminal hacking charges when he was a teenager, trained in the US military at the end of his years-long sentence and unleashed in black ops as an emotionally vacant sharpshooter, he was destined for an isolated, tortured life—but Josephine de la Peña had drawn him toward a utopia he’d never known existed. She was light and color and hope, and he’d screwed up and fallen in love with her.

Then his gun, his bullet, his error, had sent her to the ground on a blanket of her own blood, and he’d been slung back to the world he was meant for—a world void of everything he’d known with Joey. She had been shot but it was he who’d fallen off the grid for five damn years.

The single reason he’d come out of the shadows was to protect her. He’d wounded her, wrecked her in some sense, but it hadn’t been his plan. That plan belonged to another architect, and Zaf would let no one take her life.

He’d been in Las Vegas some months now, lying low but learning the characteristics of the city and the hierarchy of its people. He surfaced at casinos on the occasions that he wanted to play his intellect against sophisticated dealers ruling high-risk table games.

Mostly he tracked the bastard who’d made Joey his target. The threat to her had intensified to the point that Zaf could no longer effectively watch over her from a distance. He needed access, proximity, trust.

Good friggin’ luck getting even one of the three.

Not that he would blame Joey if she tried to run him through with her cane right now. He’d taken no sadistic pleasure in her pain, but welcomed her retaliation. He figured he deserved the wrath, and secretly he prayed it would assuage his agony.

Zaf stood motionless. It was up to her to come to him now. He’d done all the heavy work to this point, hacking into Dating Done Smart’s system, creating a profile and neatly bridging it to hers without leaving a trace that security had been breached. This wasn’t a federal job—he’d find no governmental cooperation should the company be alerted and take up arms against him. But he didn’t care. He knew an attack was coming and this time he would keep her safe.

Inside he shook with a craving to clear the damn room of everyone but his Jo. His Jo. She wasn’t anymore—when would that fact take root?

A line of people nudged past him for a closer look at an exhibit, then he could see Joey’s tears again.

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