Tempted Hero by Ella Miles

Author:Ella Miles [Miles, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ella Miles

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Beckett

I’m not close to getting retribution for Odette, not close at all. I’m more confused than ever. I can’t understand how Ri would have taken part in Odette’s death, even to save herself. It’s not something Ri would do.

If I’m going to kill Ri for what she did, I need to get to the truth. Maybe the man who left her this note has the answer. I just need to find him; Gage can help me.

Ri tosses me my pants, breaking me from my thoughts.

I put them on as she puts on her own pants. Her cheeks blush as I catch her staring at me. It strokes my ego to see how she looks at my body when very few can get past my disfiguration. But I can’t let my emotions overwhelm me, or I’ll have her back in that bed, fucking her until Leighton comes home.

Ri starts to remove her shirt.

“No, keep it. It looks good on you,” I say.

She tucks her hair behind her ear. It’s a wild mess, but it suits her—wild, and strong, and free.

“What will you wear?”

“Pants will be enough to fend off the flirtatious women until I get home,” I wink at her.

She chuckles. “I’ll try not to get jealous of anyone who pines after you.”

Her unspoken motivation hangs in the air. She thinks of me as hers.

Just like I think of her as mine.

Ri is mine. I just have to decide what to do with her—keep her or kill her.

Tonight made everything so much more complicated. Seeing her tied up enraged me. Fucking her melted me. And watching her fight—god, that destroyed me.

Watching her fight turned on every alpha male instinct in me. I wanted to protect her with a fierceness I’ve never felt before. I wanted to fight every man coming our way while she ran away to safety. And yet, watching her fight and seeing the strength and skill she wields, made my cock harder than it’s ever been in my life.

I thought the best way to start a family was by finding a woman not in this dangerous world, but every time I try I fail. Maybe I should have been looking for the strongest woman in this criminal life? That’s what my brother and friends did.

I stare at Ri, a woman I could have loved. But by goading her father to have these games, did I ruin everything? Or did she already ruin what could have been by killing Odette?

“Ready?” she asks.

I nod.

We each pick up a gun from the corpses on the ground and then walk out of the bedroom and through the now empty club. We are just about to the front door when Ri stops.

“What about the security cameras? We need Leighton and Vincent to think I broke free on my own. I don’t want you getting in trouble for this.”

I put my gun in my waistband and take my phone out of my pocket. I send a quick text to Gage, and two seconds later, he texts back that he’s on it.

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