Tempted by His Wicked Kiss

Author:Zoey Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

December 31st, 11:16PM: Two men clad in black ski masks were struck by a car at Broadway and Bleecker Street. The pedestrians were both pronounced dead at NYU Medical Center Hospital at 12:00AM, January 1st. The driver, identified as Gregory Lancaster, sustained minor injuries.

That point in time precisely matched with the time of day and area where she was robbed. But the men had been pronounced dead. It seemed too coincidental that a car accident had happened so close in time and location to where she’d been robbed. The men who were killed in the fatal accident had to have been involved in the mugging. Perhaps there was a third man involved in the operation and Jack was the lone survivor.

Had Jack really done that to her? Shock ravaged her body as she broke out in a cold sweat. When she came to her senses, rage filled her. She sprinted through the library and up to the secret room. Jack was still sleeping.

She stood by the side of the bed.

“You lied to me,” she said bluntly. “You didn’t remember me from school, I could feel it. You remembered me from that night, didn’t you? I know you were there.”

Jack opened his eyes and sat up in bed. He swallowed a few times like he was disoriented. “You know I was where?” he asked.

“I remember your gray eyes peering at me from behind that ski mask, your voice before you ran away. Did you rob me?” she demanded, her voice raised.

Jack looked like she’d just punched him with all she had. “What?” he asked, his throat sounding as dry as sandpaper.

“Almost one year ago tonight. Did you rob me?”

He reached out a hand to hers, but she swatted it away. “Answer the question.”

Jack looked around the room like he was trapped. “Charlotte, please—”

Charlotte pinned the newspaper article into his bare chest with her pointer finger. “Can you explain this?” Her hand was shaking. “Please tell me you have an explanation.”

Jackson took the paper from her hands and turned it over. As he scanned it to the bottom of the page, his eyes widened.

“It says two men died just a block away from the ATM I was robbed at on Prince Street and Broadway. But you know who they were, right? It was you and two other guys and you got away. I’d been told by the police that my case was still pending, that they never identified my attackers. Why would they say that?”

“Because they wouldn’t have had any suspects to tell you about. Because the suspects they were chasing after were guys they’d been after for years—guys the police ran into oncoming traffic on purpose and then tried to cover the whole thing up.”

“What? What are you talking about?”

“I’m saying the police killed us, Charlotte. They killed us before they could get any justice for you. There was no third accomplice, just me and Cal. Two guys they’d been dying to get their hands on for the longest time. Bad guys they wanted to stop at any cost to prevent them from once again hurting the city they protect.

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