Midnight Fever by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisa Marie Rice
Published: 2017-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Kay slumped into Nick’s arms and they sat there, under the shower, for a long time. The sex had kept the bad memories at bay, but as she nestled her head against his neck, tears joined the water falling on him from the shower.

Finally, he turned the shower off and started drying them.

She was physically and mentally depleted but above all, he understood, shocked. Though she’d been raised by an FBI grandfather, Nick knew Al Goodkind enough to know that he’d have shielded Kay from the dirtier side of the job.

She’d talked about her relationship with her grandfather while they’d waited in Goodkind’s house, his blood on the floor, for news of him. Goodkind had been kidnapped by monsters and Kay had been out of her mind with frantic worry. She idolized her grandfather. She saw him as a knight in shining armor, and goddammit, he was.

So was Nick.

But Goodkind had never told her that he’d killed seven men in the line of duty, four of them in one raid when he was a rookie. Nick couldn’t count the men he’d killed.

Goodkind had shielded her from the nature of the world, which was raw and predatory. He knew she’d been dedicated to her studies, had lived in a lab coat since she was eighteen and was a world-renowned expert on things no one could see or hear or taste. She lived in a world where knowledge was precious and people were smart and dedicated to the common good.

She’d just found out that she’d been living a lie her entire life.

People were stupid and greedy, capable of vast cruelty. There were people who would kill for pennies, let alone for wealth. And there were people willing to kill for the knowledge she and her colleagues worked so selflessly to produce.

It was a real fucked-up world.

Nick had known this all his life. His dad had been a cop and his brother and two sisters were in law enforcement. The youngest, Roberto—Bobby—had inexplicably decided to become a spook, but was forgiven this transgression, because he was a kickass spook.

The entire Mancino family fought the bad guys and protected the innocent.

Nick had always had backup in school. Nobody, nobody bullied a Mancino because you’d have your ass handed to you, broken and bloody. In turn, he’d provided backup to the younger members of the extended family—which was three brothers, two sisters, twelve cousins and twenty-two second cousins. All of them lived in Philly and they all got together often. He’d grown up in a huge clan and though he knew the world was big and bad, he had a lot of tough guys—even the girls in the Mancino clan were tough guys—on his side.

Kay had only had a loving grandfather on her side, and understandably, he’d shielded her from the shitty fuckup that was the world.

But one thing Kay had to understand. She had him on her side now. He had her back. She no longer had only a retired, ailing 80-year-old, she had Nick Mancino and the entire ASI team, who were all smart and tough.

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