Strike Me Down by Mindy Mejia

Author:Mindy Mejia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Published: 2020-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

NORA

WHEN GREGG raised his arms and told her to hit him, something inside Nora flared.

All morning, she’d been ignoring her anger, keeping herself and her team working at lightning speed to uncover everything they could find about Magers Construction—the company that had been tricked into diverting almost twenty million dollars of Strike’s money—but she couldn’t completely bury the emotions from last night. Her surreal vStrike fight had already brought up more issues than she could handle, but it paled in comparison to what she’d seen afterward.

Mike kept insisting, even as she was getting ready this morning, that it might not have been Corbett in the alley.

“It was dark. You’d had a few drinks, and you were—apparently—upset.” Her husband’s amusement at her emotional turmoil did nothing to calm her down, and Corbett’s phone was going straight to voice mail now, making it impossible to find out what had actually happened.

She left the house without a word and accelerated too fast out of the neighborhood, almost not braking in time when Henry and his friend biked over to wave goodbye. They both swerved to the sidewalk, narrowly missing her bumper as she screeched to a halt.

Adrenaline flooded her chest, but she forced a smile and a wave, trying to act normal, as though she hadn’t almost run over her own child. The boys hesitantly turned around and returned to wherever they’d been playing, Henry looking back over his shoulder like he was scared she would try to follow them.

She needed Strike. All morning, as her team dove into the company’s headquarters records, her muscles had twitched from lack of use. They’d demanded to be on the other side of the wall, in the gym, driving her fists and feet into the bag. So strange, for someone who’d spent her life running, to feel this craving for the fight.

Which was why, when Gregg raised his hands in the Northeast neighborhood apartment and said “please” in that quiet, desperate voice, her pulse leapt, her hands clenched in anticipation, and she’d let loose every bit of confusion and rage from the past twenty-four hours.

He took it, each punch, each shot of violence, and urged her for more. Her knuckles burned as his palms turned raw and red. His eyes glowed as she pushed him back, advancing.

“Faster, Nora. You can do better than that. Hit me harder. Hit me like you mean it. Hit me—”

She drew back, shifted her weight, and kicked him into the wall. His back thudded against the plaster, sending a surge of triumph through her entire body. It was almost like being Logan.

The thought stopped her cold. “I can’t. I need to …”

She was standing in Logan’s old apartment, inhabiting the space of the woman she’d been mesmerized by for months. Before she could process anything beyond that, Logan’s husband stepped in and kissed her.

He drew her up, hard and tight, inviting her to bruise him in every way possible, and for one mindless moment she did. She let herself go, slipping further into the fantasy.

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