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Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 69537 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 348(@200wpm)___ 278(@250wpm)___ 232(@300wpm)

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Garrett Carter knew the moment he saw her years prior that she was the one.

His one, however, had a fiancé. And she was rich. She also lived out of state.

So what other option did he have but to let her go?

Years later, he sees her again at her worst.

Her husband-to-be has stranded her on a hiking trail with a head wound, convinced she’s faking her blindness.

Garrett takes one look at the injured Bindi Howe and knows there’s no way she’s faking it.

Rushing her to the hospital, he gets her there just in time to save her life.

During the craziness, Garrett has no clue it’s her—his one.

He leaves her there with her family and goes back home to his lonely life.

Only fate intervenes for him a third time, and it’s then that Garrett decides that he’s going to go for it.

But, like always, life intervenes, and he’s forced to leave her behind once again to keep her safe.

As luck would have it, fate gives him one last shot, and brings them together one last time, and Garrett refuses to let her go, despite Bindi’s fiancé coming back begging for a second chance.

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Part One

My flabber gets gasted daily.

—Garrett to Gable

GARRETT

2 1/2 years ago

I spotted her from across the hotel lobby.

She was following a man in a business suit, trying in vain to keep up with his quick feet while also lugging two huge suitcases behind her.

She was beautiful.

Beyond beautiful.

She wasn’t tall, but she wasn’t short. She was perfectly in the middle at around five-three or four. She had a slim, wild beauty about her. Her dark brown, almost black, hair was a riot of curls, and every few seconds, she would tuck that wild hair behind her ear to keep it out of her face. But it was a futile effort.

Nothing she could do could tame those wild curls, especially in the Texas heat.

She was wearing a black slip of a dress that hugged each of her curves, and boy, did she have a lot of them. Perfectly shaped hips, slightly rounded belly, a small handful of breasts.

Her olive skin tone was beautiful against the shiny black material of her dress.

But it was her face that held me the most captivated.

She had a smattering of freckles over her cheeks and nose, plump lips that begged for a kiss, and straight white teeth.

She wasn’t wearing a stitch of makeup, either.

At least, not that I could tell.

Her eyes, though.

Her eyelashes were long and probably didn’t need the mascara to help their length. And the dark blue irises reminded me of a lake my family liked to hike to when we had a spare two weeks to play with. Not quite green, not quite blue, but a striking combination of both.

It was like a shock straight to the heart when she looked over and our eyes met.

She smiled softly and dipped her chin, causing my stomach to flutter.

Our eyes held for the longest of times until we were rudely interrupted.

“Would you fucking hurry up, Lea? Jesus.”

The woman I’d been staring at finally looked away, and I felt like I’d lost something important.

Her shoulders slumped, and she hurried, despite the high heels she was wearing that looked like she wasn’t used to wearing them.

Lea. She didn’t look like a Lea to me.

And the tone of the woman’s voice who’d called out to her made me want to snap.

My head turned to face the front of the hotel lobby to find four people—I’d, of course, spotted their pompous asses as soon as they’d arrived down from the elevator—dressed much the same as the man that was in the business suit with the knockout, waiting at the door with harried looks on their faces.

They looked like they bathed in their money.

Jerks.

“I’m sorry.” The woman’s voice was soft, almost hesitant as if she didn’t want to piss these people off.

“Sorry we were late,” the asshole next to her glared. “Someone couldn’t find her shoes.”

The five assholes started walking toward the door, leaving the woman with the shorter legs behind.

The woman sighed. “It’s not like I was the one that packed them, Joseph.”

The “Joseph” imbecile didn’t hear her, luckily.

I would’ve had to hate to blow my cover because this piece of shit rounded on her.

The group left, and I watched them walk to a limo that was outside waiting for them.

I hated watching the woman go.

She was by far the most beautiful creature I’d ever laid eyes on.

When I finally pulled my gaze away from the window, I nearly jolted in surprise.

Because when I looked across the lobby, the woman that I was expecting was walking with purpose to a maid in the corner that I hadn’t seen until now.

She was wearing her police uniform.

Her hair was in a fancy updo that made her look hard and unyielding.

They spoke in the corner of the lobby, and the maid slipped her a key card.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and recorded the entire thing.

Once the maid disappeared around the corner, I got up and put the phone to my ear.

The phone rang twice before my dad, the chief of police for the Dallas Police Department, answered. “She was given a key card.”

“Make the approach,” my father said. “Be careful.”

He hung up, and I got up with Boss, my K-9 partner, and said, “Let’s go, boy.”

Day 98 without sex. I slammed on my brakes just so I could feel my seat belt choke me.

—Bindi to her mother

BINDI

1 ½ years ago

“Come on, babe.” My fiancé rolled his eyes at me. “Just come. It’ll be fun.”

I wasn’t sure how it could be fun, considering he knew I hated hiking.

Well, let me rephrase. I didn’t hate hiking. I hated hiking with his family.

Why did I hate hiking with his family?

Because they were all douchebags.

I’d never been a hiker before I met them.

Coming from a blue-collar family, we didn’t have the money to just up and go to the mountains anytime we damn well pleased.

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Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 69511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 348(@200wpm)___ 278(@250wpm)___ 232(@300wpm)

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Book 6 of the Carter Brothers Series featuring Gable

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Sunny D tastes like someone made a bet that they could make orange juice without oranges.

—Athena’s secret thoughts

ATHENA

12 years old

“Mary Beth,” I whispered fiercely. “What are you doing?”

“I’m literally asking you not to follow me, Athena,” my sister grumbled.

Mary Beth was twelve and a half to my twelve and three-quarters. My brother, Gavrel, was nineteen.

I was what my sister liked to call an ‘oops baby.’

Which is honestly quite hilarious seeing as we were adopted.

Mom liked to call me her miracle.

Dad liked to call me his pain in the ass.

“But Daddy said we had to stay inside,” I said. “He literally said ‘stay inside, Athena and Mary Beth.’”

“Daddy won’t know I’m leaving, if you mind your own business and go inside,” she grumbled.

I wouldn’t.

We both knew I wouldn’t.

Yet, I would act like I was going to go inside, then follow her anyway.

She should’ve known better when I went inside and waited. She stood there for a long moment before she was assured I’d gone inside. Only when she disappeared around the corner of the long hotel hallway did I dart out and head for the stairs.

I took the stairs two at a time, using my long legs—Dad liked to call them runner legs—to propel me as fast as possible down the narrow staircase.

When I got to the bottom, I carefully opened up the stairwell door and peeked out.

No one was there, so I tiptoed out of the narrow corridor into the main lobby.

We were staying in some fancy hotel in Hawaii.

We were right on the beach, and Daddy said the hotel cost six months of mortgage payments to stay at. But Mom wanted to renew their vows, and the beaches of Hawaii was where she wanted to do it.

Dad said he humored her because “What else can I do?”

I hoped my future husband gave me the moon and the stars like my dad did my mom.

A flash of white-blonde hair had me hurrying toward the exit to see Mary Beth out in the hallway that would lead out to the beach.

Daddy told us we couldn’t go out at night because of the wall.

But there she went, and there I followed.

“What’s there to be done?” I heard my dad talking.

Something had happened today.

Something bad.

Dad saw a little girl get taken, and he and Mom had been talking to the police ever since.

That was why Dad told us to stay in the room.

He was scared.

Heck, I was scared.

More because I thought I would get in trouble, not because I was worried I’d be taken.

“It’s happened twice now in three days,” I heard another man say. “Something has to be done. You have hundreds of people coming here, a lot of them with families. You can’t have them coming here if it’s unsafe.”

I hesitated, wanting to hear more about what was being said, but more curious about what it was that Mary Beth was doing.

In the end, I chose Mary Beth.

I followed her out and found her standing at the wall looking over at the black ocean.

I wasn’t sure what she was doing, but I joined her at the wall, saying, “Whatcha lookin’ at?”

She gasped and turned, about to yell at me for following her, but she didn’t get the chance.

“Mary Beth?”

I looked over Mary Beth’s shoulder to see a man standing there.

“Oh, Octavian.” She smiled. “What are you doing here so early?”

His eyes went from her to me, and his eyes seemed to shine.

“I…” I started to back away, but I bumped into something hard.

I turned to find another man standing behind me.

“Mary Beth,” I whispered, scared for my life now.

“Attie,” she murmured quietly. “Jump.”

I didn’t question it.

I jumped.

I hit the water with a splash, and the waves immediately started to pound into my face.

But, like my mom, I was an excellent swimmer.

I did my first open lake competition last month and won the entire thing for the sixteen to eighteen-year-old division. Mom had to fib and tell them that I was sixteen.

A wave of water hit my face, and I coughed as water went into my mouth and filled the tube it wasn’t supposed to fill.

Distantly, I heard a scream, and I just knew in my heart it was Mary Beth.

I swam harder, determined to get to the stairs I’d seen earlier.

A rock hit me in the knee, and I reached out desperately, hoping to haul myself on top of it.

I made it, scrambled up to the rock, and gasped in gulping breaths of air.

And with the bare amount of air left in my lungs I screamed my sister’s name. “Mary Beth!”

No one heard me.

The waves were probably too loud.

I screamed again.

Still nothing.

Terrified, I sat on that rock, and I waited.

I don’t know how long I waited, though.

The first hints of light were coming over the horizon when I saw a beam of light.

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Total pages in book: 67
Estimated words: 68576 (not accurate)
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Fuck me for choosing the wrong sister.

Atlas Carter was a protector. He was a police officer, had spent years in the Air Force, spent his entire teen years as a volunteer firefighter.

Being a protector was in his blood.

It was his dream.

So when a woman was in a dangerous situation, it was his every instinct to protect her. To shield her. To watch over her.
Only, that woman had played him.

She’d set him up.

She’d made sure that he only saw her.

Then, when the real woman who should hold his heart, the sister, comes into his life, he doesn’t see past the hatred of her to know that she’s only trying to protect him in return.

He spends the next year terrorizing the woman who’s supposed to be his. When the dust finally settles, and he can see clearly once again, she’s no longer there waiting for him.

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PEPPER

Age 15

“Give it back!”

I looked at my little sister, Sage—twelve going on thirty-two—and shook my head. “No, it’s mine.”

“It’s yours, but I want to use it, you fat fucking heifer!” Sage screeched.

Sage had started her period four days ago.

Sage, from then on, had made everyone’s life a living hell.

It was like some switch had flipped.

One day she was a nice kid, and the next she was this… monster.

“I am not giving you my toothbrush,” I said. “If I give it to you, I won’t have one.”

“You don’t need one.” She rolled her eyes.

Then, before I could protect myself, she launched herself at me.

Here was the thing about Sage.

She was bigger than me.

By a couple of inches.

I was a late bloomer, according to my mother.

I still looked like I was twelve, not fifteen.

I was told by the doctor that sometimes things happened this way.

And instead of dwelling on the fact that my sister looked more womanly than me at twelve than I did at fifteen, I just rolled with it.

What I didn’t expect was for her to use the height and weight she had on me to her advantage in beating the ever-loving shit out of me.

I curled into a ball, unable to protect myself from her anger.

And only after her shrieks and my cries for help were answered by my father and brothers, did I finally realize that the old sister, the nice sister—the sister I used to have—was officially gone.

I would never forgive her.

Never.

And I had a scar across the bridge of my nose, from eye to eye, where she’d clawed me with her fingernails to remind me.

Age 17

“What happened?” my mother asked the moment she got to the school.

I was so angry I could cry.

“Well, do you want to know the truth, or would you like to know the lies Sage is passing around school?” I asked through gritted teeth.

Emmanuele and Gladys Solomon had four children. Two boys and two girls.

The first child my parents had was Tarrant, my brother. Then came me. Followed shortly by Everest, the youngest boy. Finally came Sage, the youngest girl.

There were four years difference between Tarrant and Sage.

All of us went to school at Kilgore High School, in Kilgore, Texas.

Tarrant was a senior, I was a junior, Everest a sophomore, and Sage a freshman.

“I would like to know your side of the story,” my mother said expertly.

She never outright called my sister a liar.

That would set her off.

But she knew, just as well as I did, that Sage was a fuckin’ nut job.

She always had been and only seemed to have gotten worse since I’d gotten to high school.

I couldn’t wait until I graduated and could get the hell away from her.

“Well, I got to school this morning and went to soccer class like I always do, but when I went to change, my locker had been ransacked and I had no school clothes to change into,” I said. “So I had to wear my gym clothes, which I got in trouble for because they were too short. But let’s not talk about the fact that Kilgore Athletic Department is the governing body that gave me those clothes in the first place. I digress, though.” I waved my hand at the school at large. “So I get called to the principal’s office, and they tell me I need to change. So I break into Sage’s locker and find my clothes from this morning. Change into them. Only, Sage then complains to the school resource officer that I broke into her locker. I’m then questioned by him, and now here we are, talking to each other.”

“And what is she saying that you did this morning?” my mom asked, pain filling her eyes.

Every day was a new adventure when it came to Sage Solomon.

She was, by far, the nuttiest person I’d ever met.

And that was not said in a good way.

Sage made everyone’s lives a living hell, and not a day went by that we didn’t tread carefully to avoid stepping on her toes.

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Total pages in book: 68
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Being a twin is great.
What isn’t great is having the hots for the same woman your twin does.
Been there, done that, have the t-shirt.
Since Auden Carter made that mistake in his teens, he’d promised himself never to do that to his brother again.
Hence why he’s tried so hard to stay away from Maven, the sexy bakery owner that seems to have been put on this planet to tempt him.

After months of watching his brother never make a move, Auden’s had enough. He tells his twin to either shit or get off the pot. Only, come to find out, his twin was never on the pot. He’d never had the hots for Maven at all, but her cute little assistant.
Unfortunately, at this point, he’d done his level best to appear undesirable to Maven, and had gone out of his way to make it very clear that he wasn’t interested.
He has a lot of work to do to convince her that he’s not the guy he’d been acting like for the last few months.
Luck is on his side, though, and soon Maven needs his help, giving him the perfect opportunity to worm his way into her life…and her heart.

But that help she needs turns into a desperate plea for protection, and all he has to do is quit his beloved job to give it.
It’s not every day that you are in love with your boss’s daughter, who just so happens to be the chief of police of Dallas, Texas—your beloved police department that you’ve worked at for your entire career.
It’s also not every day when that boss pulls out every stop, and ruins your life to the point where you’re not sure you can find your way out of the downward spiral he’s forced upon you.
There is one thing Auden knows for certain, though. Maven is worth it. He’ll fight the chief of police, or the entire world, putting his life on the line to do it, as long as it keeps her safe.

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AUDEN & MAVEN

Being a twin is great.

What isn’t great is having the hots for the same woman your twin does.

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt.

Since Auden Carter made that mistake in his teens, he’d promised himself never to do that to his brother again.

Hence why he’s tried so hard to stay away from Maven, the sexy bakery owner that seems to have been put on this planet to tempt him.

After months of watching his brother never make a move, Auden’s had enough. He tells his twin to either shit or get off the pot. Only, come to find out, his twin was never on the pot. He’d never had the hots for Maven at all, but her cute little assistant.

Unfortunately, at this point, he’d done his level best to appear undesirable to Maven, and had gone out of his way to make it very clear that he wasn’t interested.

He has a lot of work to do to convince her that he’s not the guy he’d been acting like for the last few months.

Luck is on his side, though, and soon Maven needs his help, giving him the perfect opportunity to worm his way into her life…and her heart.

But that help she needs turns into a desperate plea for protection, and all he has to do is quit his beloved job to give it.

It’s not every day that you are in love with your boss’s daughter, who just so happens to be the chief of police of Dallas, Texas—your beloved police department that you’ve worked at for your entire career.

It’s also not every day when that boss pulls out every stop, and ruins your life to the point where you’re not sure you can find your way out of the downward spiral he’s forced upon you.

There is one thing Auden knows for certain, though. Maven is worth it. He’ll fight the chief of police, or the entire world, putting his life on the line to do it, as long as it keeps her safe.

You don’t cross my mind. You live in it.

—Auden’s secret thoughts

AUDEN

I was exhausted.

Well and truly exhausted.

“You’re free to leave,” our team leader, Scott Austin, offered up.

I was instantly on my feet, ready to get the hell out of the training facility.

Last night, Scott had declared that today we would have a team meeting, as well as a mandatory two-hour training session at the DPD SWAT’s training facility.

Which put a hamper on my morning plans of fishing with my brothers and dad.

The last thing I wanted to do was be in this place on my day off, yet Scott didn’t seem to care.

That was because Scott had no life.

Scott also decided that since he couldn’t have a life, the rest of us shouldn’t either.

And, even though we’d attended a team meeting as well as team training last week, also on our day off, he’d required us to be here today as well.

Though, I thought it was really fuckin’ weird how last week’s team meeting and training included us, as well as this week’s.

See, the Dallas Police Department SWAT team was enormous.

As in, so fuckin’ big that it was damn near impossible to hold a meeting where everyone could attend. A lot of us had to work our regular shifts still seeing as DPD SWAT wasn’t a full-time job like it was for Scott, and Scott wasn’t willing to allow that fact into his pea-sized brain.

I fucking hated Scott.

I hated even more that he dismissed us like children for a meeting that was exactly the same as last week.

“Carters,” Scott called as we stood with the rest of the group. “A minute.”

I groaned, my eyes catching my brother’s.

He shook his head, forcing me to keep my mouth shut.

Atlas was the more even-tempered of the Carter clan.

He didn’t get mad easily, tried to keep the peace, and was ultimately my mom’s favorite child because he was so giving.

Meanwhile, the rest of us were heathens, myself included.

I had a temper that ran hot, and the only reason I hadn’t fucking quit SWAT was because my brother loved it.

Personally, SWAT was the bane of my existence.

I loved the challenge that SWAT offered me, but no challenge in the world was worth having to deal with Scott, and Scott’s cronies, who all felt like the only reason we were on the team was because we had the last name Carter.

See, the name Carter was pretty famous among the Dallas police community.

My great-great-great grandfather was the police chief way back in the day.

My great-great grandfather was assistant chief. My great grandfather was assistant chief. My grandfather was chief. And now my dad was assistant chief.

And all those assistant positions were only because they didn’t want to deal with the bullshit of having to be the actual chief.

Then again, maybe if my dad was willing to be the actual chief, we wouldn’t have to deal with Chief Austin’s bullshit, too.

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Total pages in book: 68
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Toxic: very harmful or unpleasant in an invasive or sinister way.
One word. Two consonants. Five letters. Two people.
Quinn James Carter met Solei Shayne Rodriguez his senior year of high school.
At first, he tried to stay away from her. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and if there were two people in this world who were meant to be together, it was Shayne and him.
Sadly, life doesn’t work out like you plan.
A single, brash, knee-jerk reaction has them both deciding that their relationship is never going to work. A cop and a notorious criminal’s sister can’t have a happily ever after, can they?
Consequently, they go their separate ways.
They live their lives.
And time after time, they come right back to each other, giving the term ‘toxic relationship’ a new meaning.
Anger, jealousy, hurt, and pain run hand in hand with their persistent need to stay in each other’s lives, no matter if it’s in a healthy way or not.
But eventually, time catches up to them.
Fate decides their path for them, and one of them has to wind up nearly dead for them to admit that they can make it work if they want to. They only have to try.

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Part One

Before Shayne + Quinn

A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has it voluntarily under control.

—Germaine to Quaid

QUINN

I clocked her the moment she walked in the room.

“Who. Is. That?” I said to no one in particular.

The table holding my brothers collectively turned to look at who I was talking about, and a few of them drew in deep breaths upon the sight of her.

“That’s Shayne Rodriguez,” Quincy announced as he turned around. “That’s the girl Ande’s been talking about for ages.”

It was second semester of my senior year.

Our sisters, Addison and Ande, were three years younger than us.

Though, technically, they were more like two-and-three-quarter years younger than us, but three was easier to say.

“That’s the gang leader’s sister?” I felt my stomach drop.

Out of all the people who could’ve walked into this place and caught my eye, I had to be intrigued by the gang leader’s sister?

My mom was going to kill me.

My mom and dad were both cops for Dallas Police Department.

My grandfathers were, too.

If there was a single person in this school I didn’t need to be hanging out with, it would be her.

My mom had already had a serious talk with Ande as she spoke to her about the dangers of being associated with Shayne but Ande hadn’t listened.

Apparently, they were soul mate best friends, and it didn’t matter what we said to her. They would remain best friends because that was just how it was going to be now. No matter who she had to piss off in the process.

“How do you know who she is?” my brother, Auden, asked.

Auden was younger, but didn’t look it.

We were all the same size and build, though that was likely due to our parents’ inability to allow us any free time. When we weren’t playing sports, we were outside working. When we weren’t doing chores, we were actually working.

Speaking of work…

“Hey, Quincy, can you take my shift today at the video store?” I asked. “I have a paper due.”

“I’ll take it if you write mine, too.” Quincy shrugged.

“Deal,” I said as I gathered my trash and headed toward the exit.

After dropping the remnants of my lunch off into the trash can by the door, I left, only looking once over my shoulder as I did.

My eyes connected with those of the newcomer.

Momentarily, I was stunned by her light gray eyes.

They were something out of a magazine, or a freakin’ movie.

They looked almost unreal.

And her hair.

It was long, black, thick, and straight, coming to a stop somewhere right above her hips.

Hips that went on for days.

She gave the perfect example of pear-shaped.

Great breasts, curvy legs and ass.

She was the epitome of pin-up model perfection.

But she looked at me like I was a new and interesting bug that she hadn’t quite figured out yet.

I hesitated in the doorway, staring at her, temporarily forgetting my parents’ warnings. However, just as I had the thought of going back inside, she turned away from me and gave me her back.

Maybe I’d imagined everything…

I didn’t imagine anything.

Not a damn thing.

The first time I talked to her was when she came into Mr. Glee’s class and took the seat right in front of me.

I had to tap her on the shoulder and ask her to move her hair when I went to take the pop quiz that Mr. Glee had handed out the moment that the tardy bell rang.

She’d moved it, but not before saying a husky, “I’m sorry.”

From that moment on, I was hooked.

I was drowning, and it was the sweetest death I’d ever experienced.

Too bad I couldn’t freeze time. Make everyone forget where we both came from.

I can’t prove this, but I swear I used to be smarter, funnier, and less tired.

—Shayne’s secret thoughts

SHAYNE

2 years later

“I’m sorry, but what?” I laughed at the joke Quinn made, thinking that I surely hadn’t heard him right.

But no, he repeated the words, and there wasn’t a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

“I think we should break up.”

I tilted my head, unsure what to say to that.

“What are you talking about, Quinn?” I asked, voice slightly hurt.

He looked down at his hands. “I joined the force today.”

My stomach dropped.

“You’re not twenty-one,” I countered.

He shrugged. “I’m a few months away from twenty-one.”

I opened my mouth and then closed it.

“But what about school?” I continued. “You’re not even finished with your degree. What about the Marines? You can’t become an officer if you don’t finish your degree.”

He was going to school for criminal justice with a minor in criminology. Once he’d finished that, his entire life plan was to go into the military as an officer.

I mean, sure, we’d talked about him going into the police academy, but ultimately, he’d decided to finish his degree first. Do the Marine thing. Then, when everything he’d wanted to do had been done, he’d consider the police academy.

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Ellodie Cassandra Solaire made a single, solitary New Year’s resolution.

That resolution was set in stone, and she wouldn’t be breaking it, no matter what.

It was simple: Say yes to every person who asks her out on a date until she finds a boyfriend.

Easy, right?

Wrong.

She breaks that New Year’s resolution three months into the year after a guy gives her serial killer vibes.

Fast forward three months, and she’s unhappily saying yes to any man who asks.

Until one day, there she is, eating a chicken burrito waiting for traffic to clear, and he appears like a knight in shining armor.

One second, she’s counting down the seconds until the parade dissipates so she can go home, and the next, a car is flying through the air directly beside her, courtesy of a hot cop performing a PIT maneuver.

It’s during the middle of the arrest when Quaid Carter’s eyes find hers.

From that moment on, she’s lost to anyone else but him.

The only problem is that serial killer vibe she got off of her potential date a few months ago isn’t just a vibe. It’s a full-blown obsession. And the serial killer decides that she won’t be the one to get away.

Quaid Carter has different ideas, though.

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I need to lose weight. I know how to lose weight, but I don’t want to do the things I need to do to lose the weight, but I still want to lose weight. You know what I mean?

—Text from Ellodie to her mom

ELLODIE

I groaned, let my head fall back to rest against the very well-worn fabric of my headrest, and contemplated parking and walking the rest of the way home.

But then, the thought of having to make the hike back to my car at five in the morning sounded even less appealing.

I narrowed my eyes, glaring hard at the orange and white blockade in front of me.

A freakin’ parade.

Of all things.

In the middle of the damn evening rush hour traffic.

Sure, I’d seen the signs for the parade all over the neighborhood. Knew that roads would be blocked off for a majority of the evening, but I’d forgotten.

I mean, I had zero time to be thinking about blockades and how I was going to get home when I was struggling to keep my head above water.

The one and only good thing about going back to school to get my nurse anesthetist license was this time around, I wasn’t eating Ramen Noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Now, I had money in the bank.

But also, I was working a full-time job at the hospital while going back to school, doing clinicals where needed, and ultimately running myself ragged.

So yeah, remembering that a freakin’ parade, of all things, was going to be blocking every single way home was really the last thing on my mind.

I looked over at the seat next to me where I had a textbook denting the cushion. I considered picking up the massive beast, but ultimately decided against it.

I needed a break.

I’d been studying on and off throughout my shift, and to be completely honest, I was freakin’ tired.

The last thing I wanted to do was pick it up and continue to go through it.

I felt like my head was about to explode.

Picking up my phone instead, I started to mindlessly search through Facebook, then Instagram, followed by TikTok. It was thirty-five minutes later when I realized that not only did I have to eat something before I died, but I also had to pee.

And since I wasn’t at work, I didn’t tend to deny that urge if I felt it.

Glancing around the neighborhood I’d been parked outside of for the last hour as I watched parade floats pass between buildings in the distance, I spotted a Crispy Chicken sign, and felt my heartrate pick up.

Growing up in a small, middle of nowhere town, not far from the Arkansas/Louisiana/Texas line, there was one singular place that had food. The gas station, that happened to have a fast-food chain, Crispy Chicken, in it.

Crispy Chicken was a delicacy for the Solaire family.

My dad, Harvey, and my mom, Hall, were both fifth generation farmers. My dad grew up farming soybean, sunflowers, and peanuts, while my mom harvested corn, cotton, and feed grains.

Together, they’d joined two of the biggest farms in the area and formed one huge conglomerate that lived, breathed, and died agriculture.

Truthfully, I could count on two hands the number of times we went out to a fancy restaurant.

But Crispy Chicken?

Man, that was my jam when I was a kid.

And a crispito did sound good…

Getting out of my car, I locked the doors, then hurried toward the gas station. I noticed that the line of cars beside me didn’t look any happier than I did to be stuck out here waiting on a parade to finish.

Getting to the gas station, I went inside, and immediately was taken back ten years to my childhood.

Crispy Chicken sandwiches, crispitos, the sweet butter biscuits… Yum!

I ordered two crispitos, four biscuits, and a hunk of pizza, then grabbed a chicken sandwich for good measure. While she was taking care of that, I hit up the bathroom.

It was as I was walking back to my waiting food that I spotted my guilty pleasure—Baja Blast Mountain Dew—and snatched that up, too.

The cashier rang me up, and I was heading back to my car not long after.

And, because it was hot as balls in my car, and I didn’t have enough gas to be running it for more than another ten minutes—because Jesus, I hated getting gas—I sat on the hood of my car and ate.

Simultaneously, I went back to my social media hopping.

When the sweat from the backs of my thighs forced me to slide down the hood of my car, I got a better purchase, then pushed myself backward until I was leaning on the glass of the windshield.

I looked around, noticing that others were doing much the same, and went back to eating and scrolling.

It was just as I was about to take a bite of my last crispito when something caused me to pause.

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You know when you see that big red flag, and you think to yourself, I should probably not go anywhere near there?

Yeah, Quincy Carter ignored that big red flag. He walked right up to that red flag, waving blatantly in the wind, and kissed the holy hell out of her.

Sure, he probably should’ve arrested her for breaking a restraining order.

He probably also should’ve stopped her from continuing to break that restraining order.

Yet… he can’t.

By the time he realizes he’s in deep, Quincy has no other options but to ride the wave of continuous disaster that is Hollis Aue.

***

Hollis Aue is on the road to revenge.

After a famous comedian rips her best friend in the middle of his biggest show ever and elevated her disabilities to the butt of his joke, her best friend spirals.

After finding out from a kindhearted detective that her best friend took her own life, Hollis makes it her new mission to make that comedian’s life a living hell.

The only problem with that is Detective Quincy Carter with the Dallas Police Department insinuates himself into her life, making it impossible for her to achieve her goals.

Try as she might, she can’t shake him, and soon, the lines between hate and love start to blur.

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CARTER BROTHERS, BOOK 1

QUINCY & HOLLIS

You know when you see that big red flag, and you think to yourself, I should probably not go anywhere near there?

Yeah, Quincy Carter ignored that big red flag. He walked right up to that red flag, waving blatantly in the wind, and kissed the holy hell out of her.

Sure, he probably should’ve arrested her for breaking a restraining order.

He probably also should’ve stopped her from continuing to break that restraining order.

Yet… he can’t.

By the time he realizes he’s in deep, Quincy has no other options but to ride the wave of continuous disaster that is Hollis Aue.

Hollis Aue is on the road to revenge.

After a famous comedian rips her best friend in the middle of his biggest show ever and elevated her disabilities to the butt of his joke, her best friend spirals.

After finding out from a kindhearted detective that her best friend took her own life, Hollis makes it her new mission to make that comedian’s life a living hell.

The only problem with that is Detective Quincy Carter with the Dallas Police Department insinuates himself into her life, making it impossible for her to achieve her goals.

Try as she might, she can’t shake him, and soon, the lines between hate and love start to blur.

To that cop I saw in line in front of me at the local burger joint. Your sexy jaw inspired this entire book.

Sackgesicht: someone who is mean and looks like a testicle

—reasons to learn German

QUINCY

“Sir,” I said when I saw the two vehicles, exhaustion leeching into my veins.

Jesus Christ, it wasn’t even seven in the morning, and I was already dealing with bullshit.

I’d been on my way to work, for Christ’s sake. But not to actually work. To drive my brother, Auden, to work. I’d been going back home when I’d run into this… mess.

“Who the fuck just leaves their car in the middle of the road like this?” the man continued to rant. “The kind of person who’s a complete and utter dumbass, that’s who!” he cried out, throwing his hands wide.

I tended to agree with him.

There was a brown Toyota Corolla with ski racks partially in a parking spot. The rest of it was in a no parking zone that was so close to the hospital I had no doubt in my mind I was about to be dealing with a nurse.

And I say partially in a parking spot liberally, because it was more out than in.

“Sir,” I said again, sounding just as impatient as I felt. “I can do a full write up on this entire situation. If I do that, I’ll have to investigate why you didn’t see this car, because regardless of it being illegally parked, it’s still out of the road. Or you can take your fucked up front bumper and get it fixed elsewhere without me dealing with the ticket procedure.”

The man, seeing the wisdom of my words, sighed and nodded.

My guess was he was probably texting and driving. He was a young, expensive looking dude. Likely, he had somewhere to be, was talking or texting, and had sideswiped the shithole of a car that was slightly in the road.

Technically, the guy should’ve been paying a bit more attention.

But also, the driver of this vehicle should’ve parked it way better than they had.

Which was why, at seven thirteen in the morning, I was heading inside the hospital to see if I could find the owner of the car to get them to move it into a proper parking spot.

I wiped at my tired eyes as I made the hike to Dallas Memorial.

Not only had I literally just come from this hospital less than seven hours ago with a new case in my lap, but I’d also just dropped my other brother, Atlas, off there before Auden because he was getting a procedure done this morning on his eyes.

I was the official drop everyone off where they needed to go person, apparently.

Technically, I didn’t have any specific shift times when it came to my job as a detective with Dallas Police Department. I hadn’t had actual shift times since I’d left the gang unit two years ago.

I went in when it was needed and took time off when needed. Though I did have specific days off. Well, one day, in particular. Tuesdays.

And since I’d just had that day off two days ago, I didn’t have a single day to look forward to for five more days.

“Yo,” the security guard, Marrott, jerked his chin up at me. “Whatcha doin’ here, buddy?”

I showed him the sticky note I’d written the license plate down on.

I’d have memorized it like I usually did, but there were a lot of Bs and 8s, and I wasn’t willing to forget this one.

I almost felt like the license plate had been specifically done confusingly so it’d make it harder for cops trying to do their jobs.

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