The Wives' Tales Collection (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic) by Lara Santiago

Author:Lara Santiago
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2014-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

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Jonathan Brent entered the auction room on a mission: to find a scam artist named Walter Dennis. As scam artists went, he was fairly low-rent, but a couple of days ago he’d conned a magistrate’s elderly mother out of some money and had consequently elevated his arrest status.

Elliott had gotten the heads-up from an anonymous call that Walter would be present at today’s auction at the Tiberius Justice Center, so he’d sent Jon to pick him up. If Walter was there and Jon made the arrest, the caller would get a reward sent to a private account. All snitches were graciously protected under Tiberius rule, especially the anonymous ones.

Jon signed the electronic registration sheet, and the clerk handed him a bid number. If he wanted to, he could kill two birds with one stone and acquire a wife today as he slapped handcuffs on Walter. He let out a disgusted breath at the way women were treated with regard to marriage. He had the utmost compassion for them, having grown up with a very loving mother and two tolerably pleasant older sisters. But even if he did find the perfect woman here today, he would never bid on her.

Career lawmen didn’t have time for wives, in his opinion. He was away from home four to six months a year chasing scumbags across the galaxies, and being a lawman’s wife was not the lonely life he wanted to subject a woman to.

Besides, he thought, he’d never found a woman who stirred him enough anyway. That wasn’t entirely true, he knew. He still held a fond memory of a certain scorching kiss in a darkened elevator. He had been reminded of it earlier when he’d passed that very same elevator. As he entered the auction room, his mind filled with the memory of the dark space where she’d sizzled his lips with the most erotic and satisfying kiss Jon had ever shared.

He hadn’t pursued her because he’d found out she was married. Plus she was the mother of a child sired by Andy Nelson. It was a hard fact to get past since the serial rapist had violated and murdered his partner’s wife in cold blood right before murdering his partner, Kevin, for attempting to save her. It had been the single bloodiest night of his life and the worst case he’d endured to date.

He was interrupted from his morose reverie by a woman’s voice echoing passionately from the stage. His eyes hadn’t quite adjusted to the darkness in the room. For a moment, he thought he recognized the voice, but he was more intrigued by the fact that she’d spoken at all. Jon hadn’t thought the women up for auction in this venue were allowed to speak. Then the auctioneer berated her. Poor girl, he thought, and then dismissed her from his mind to search the room for Walter.

“But nothing. Quiet down now.” The auctioneer said to the woman, then turned back to the audience. “This is your last chance now.

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