Murphy's Love by Michelle St. James

Author:Michelle St. James [James, Michelle St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, suspense, Action & Adventure, Billionaires, Romance, contemporary
Google: XPiNDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07PXLLXGZ
Publisher: Michelle St. James
Published: 2019-03-21T16:57:54+00:00

20

Julia walked away from the river next to Nick, Elise in front of them. They’d taken a walk after dinner, their first inside her gramps’ house after a long summer of eating on the deck. Night fell faster than it had even a couple of weeks ago, and deep shadows were already creeping in as the sun sank beneath the tree line.

“You okay?” Julia asked, aware that Nick was favoring his good leg.

“Fine.”

He insisted he was fully recovered, but he still moved a little slower than usual, favoring his good leg when he was tired. Julia had gotten in the habit of hanging back with him, walking slow under the guise of conversation to preserve his pride.

“She seems better,” Julia said, her eyes on Elise up ahead.

“She’s been angry since Monaco,” he said.

She glanced over at him. “Anger’s better than being broken.”

“Personal experience?” he asked, a lock of dark hair falling over his forehead. He resembled Ronan — big and muscular and with dark hair, although he had green eyes rather than blue — but he was still something of an enigma to her.

From the beginning, she’d had no doubt who Ronan had been. He’d been in her face and angry in the alley where they’d run into each other, a whirlpool of violence swirling beneath the surface.

She’d known he was dangerous. Had even been turned on by the knowledge.

Nick was a mystery.

“Let’s just say I’ve found anger to be mobilizing,” she said.

“And being broken?”

“Paralyzing,” she said.

They walked in silence for a couple of minutes, working their way back to her gramps’ house. He’d insisted they go ahead and take their walk so he could focus on the dishes, promising apple pie when they returned.

The visit was a pleasant respite from the nonstop stress of the past few weeks, but she couldn’t help thinking about Ronan, who was meeting someone who’d been helping them with intel on Manifest.

He’d been quiet and brooding since their return from Monaco, and while she understood his frustration, she couldn’t help feeling that there was more to his mood than their lack of progress.

“Do you think we’ll ever have another shot at getting them?” she asked Nick. “The people behind Manifest?”

“I don’t think my brother will have it any other way,” Nick said.

“What about you?” Julia asked.

“I had my doubts in the beginning.”

“And now?”

He hesitated. “When we started MIS, it was about revenge. We talked big about justice, but the truth is, we were out for blood.”

“Because of Erin,” Julia said, thinking about the youngest Murphy sibling who’d overdosed when she was twenty.

“Because of Erin,” he said. “Over time we saw a lot of heavy shit, a lot of bad shit, and I think we all started to believe, at least on some level, that we could do some good, even if we had to break some rules along the way.”

“The end justifies the means?”

He nodded. “I think I believe it more than ever, and if ever there was a time to break rules in the name of justice, this would be it.

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