by Lee Taylor
“They’ve got her, Wolf. They’ve got Jesse.”
Jerking his phone from his pocket, Raoul flashed up a picture.
Gazing at the hideous sight, the world as Dameon knew it came to a crashing halt. In that brief instant Dameon knew that his life had changed irreparably and would never be the same again.
Afterword
Thank you for reading Red Rock Rises, Book 1 in The Red Rock Series, my new Sexy Romantic Suspense Series. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much I enjoyed writing it. Jesse has been tugging at my heart strings for months. It was only when the right man appeared that I was able to write her story. Thank goodness for Dameon, the man who was tough enough to mess with Red Rock! Coming October 2013: Red Rock’s Revenge, Book 2 in The Red Rock Romantic Suspense Series
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About the Author
I write Sizzling Romantic Suspense. My stories are the stories of my heritage. From the residue in my personal blender of mixed races, cultures and world views, my characters emerge. It comforts me to know that while evil slinks in the shadows, the “good guys” of the world sniff it out – and snuff it out.
You already know my stories are not your mama’s soft edged romances with swashbuckling heroes and blushing heroines. Heck no! These guys are arrogant alpha males and the feisty women who bring them to their knees – and vice versa… They fight hard, love hard and don’t mince words. They are dangerous men and women in dangerous times. Love, passion and ridding the world of evil? What’s not to like?
I am as real as the words on the page.
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Red Rock Rises
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A hardheaded, sexy female cop is forced to take on new male partner, the type of man she detests most – cocky and self-assured.
“You shot me!” Aurora is incensed. Her new partner shrugs and answers. “I saved your life.” From the very first page of this riveting story, these two battle for supremacy in trying to catch the serial rapist who ripped both their lives apart. With all her might, Aurora fights the attraction to Kai's baby blues that tease and start her internal warning devices humming. After all, her job is her life, and determination mixed with courage has always been her lifeline.
Kai has a mission of honor to undertake. The man who’d raped his sister can’t be allowed to live—after all, she hadn’t! Revenge fills his soul, while visions of his new partner fills his heart. The sassy woman rattles his calm, and he can’t keep his hands to himself. Doesn’t mean she has the power to stop him from doing what has to be done.
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Also: Author of
Vegas Series
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Vegas Shuffle
High Stakes Gamble
Spin the Wheel (June 2013)
The Vicarage Bench Series
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She’s Me
He’s Her
We’re One
Vicarage Bench Anthology
Together Again
Together for Christmas
Angels with Attitude Series
Angels playing cupid!
My Cheeky Angel
His Devious Angel
Loveable Christmas Angel
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Christmas Runaway
Mimi’s Mix
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Since my sister’s favorite genre is Romantic Suspense, this book is dedicated to her and to her son’s family with lots of love!
Chapter One
“You shot me!” Sweet Jesus it hurt!
“You told me to.”
“Dumb shit!” Aurora Morelli pushed her new partner from hovering over her so she could sit up. “I didn’t mean it!” she continued. “I just wanted you to scare Rhondo.” She felt blood gushing from the wound on her arm, and purposely kept her head turned away.
“Shooting you did scare him. He let you go, didn’t he?”
Aurora frowned at him. Why does his voice have to sound so damn reasonable?
“Whatever!” She hoped her scorn would get to him.
“Hey! I saw his eyes. You didn’t. He had every intention of using that knife. I’m talking about that sharp one he had pressed against your throat. If I’d have tried to shoot him instead of you…” He shrugged, leaving her to come to her own conclusion.
Aurora shuddered, fighting off nausea. She didn’t want to listen to reason. Staying angry made the situation a whole lot easier to deal with. Sarcasm, the best weapon she had in such a macho-man’s environment, replaced whining.
She glared at him and saw his shapely eyebrows rise. The light of the bulb hanging from the ceiling of the cruddy apartment haloed his head, making the bare skin shine. “Just my friggin luck to end up with a partner who looks and thinks like Bruce Willis.”
Kai Lawson chuckled, but Aurora’s glower put a quick end to his merriment. He tried changing the subject with sweet talk. “I’ve been told I have perfect shaped head for being bald.”
“Sure, and it goes swell with your baby-blue eyes,” she sneered. No way would she admit aloud that he did look good.
His response was a grunt of displeasure. “Are you always this crabby?”
Disbelief shone in her amazed expression. “Not at all”, she said, disdain evident. “Only when I’ve been shot.”
Kai turned his attention away from her to call in the emergency. Then he tried to push up the bloody sleeve of her shirt for access to the injury. Seeing that it was too tight, he gave up and moved to undo the buttons on the top of her white blouse.
What the hell!? “Get away from me!” She slapped at his hands and wrenched away.
When he pulled back, his cold blue eyes stared Aurora down. No smiles, no teasing now—just a bull-headed male who would brook no interference. “I have to stop the bleeding. It’s not much more than a scratch, but it’s deep. Look!”
Not in a million years! She knew better than to look. Instead, she let him remove the bulletproof vest she hated wearing, then undid her own buttons, her injured arm trembling visibly. Then with his help, she slid the garment off her shoulder.
Wasting no time, he lost his own vest and then whipped off his white t-shirt that had “L.A. Kings” scrawled across the front. He folded it to use as a pressure pad. With a swipe at the mess of curls covering the wound, he said, “Hold your hair out of the way so I can see what I’m doing.”
Raising her good arm, she reached around and scooped the loose waves toward her back. Though she didn’t mean for it to happen, her eyes became glued to the bronzed male flesh just inches away from her face. His smell infiltrated her senses, and she determined that he had a great taste in body soap, aftershave, or whatever it was that she found so intoxicating about his scent.
She scanned the tattoo that decorated Kai’s chest and upper arm, and flowed around to his back. It must have taken a genius to do such fine artwork. The flowing lines and melding colors were perfect. It was even better than hers, and she’d been real picky. Obviously, he worked out because the proof stared her in the face. Of its own accord, her gaze travelled down, and she noticed that his pants clung low on his shapely hips where the tanned skin seemed unending. Good lord! He didn’t have a tan line. Her gaze kept roving. Every muscular configuration worked together to form a body most other men admired… and women longed for.
Gently, he put pressure on her upper arm, and she quickly switched her gaze to his expression. He turned to her and winked. “There. See? Merely a scratch.”
Embarrassed, Aurora nodded. “Yeah, whatever. I can feel it.”
“I don’t believe this. You’re squeamish. A cop who can’t look at a wound? That’s the best one I’ve ever heard.” He stopped jeering and worry crept into a voice that had softened. “Hey, you gonna pass out?”
“Don’t be a smartass, Kai. It’s just my own blood I can’t stand, or people I love. Anyone else, no problem.” Sirens screamed from close by and offered the two a reprieve from their bickering.
Before Kai had arrived in Las Vegas, Aurora’s informant had directed her to a felon’s apartment, one of the guys Rhondo hung with. They’d made the arrest and brought the lowlife in for questioning.
Given that he had information Aurora desperately wanted and needed, she’d turned up the heat a little. Not surprisingly, the perp had squealed like a baby. Convinced it was in his best interest to share this lead, he’d assured her the subject, Earl Rhondo, accused of rape along with a bundle of drug-related charges, would be there.
Rhondo, the scumbag, had beeped on her personal radar months ago, ever since the night he’d attacked and almost killed her former partner, Debbie
. Since then, Aurora had had her sights set on the monster, and she’d pushed hard to get the lowdown on his whereabouts. Rhondo’s plans to party that night had led her to bring her brand spanking new partner along, so they could gatecrash the shindig.
Sure enough, they’d caught the fiend red-handed, with his pockets full of drugs, and paraphernalia everywhere. Young and scared, not at all as loyal as Rhondo would have liked, his flunkies rushed out, leaving him behind to fight his own battles.
From the moment the cops entered the room, Kai had had his weapon out, with the sights trained on the man they’d come to take down. A young hooker, who’d hidden behind the filthy sofa, took her courage in her hands and shoved Kai, then rushed Aurora… who tripped her up with a maneuver right out of the movies. A well-placed karate chop struck the silly girl
unconscious.
Rhondo, taking advantage of the distraction, made his move. The asshole pulled out a knife and grabbed Aurora, whose back had been turned for a second. He wrapped his arm around her neck and gave the order. “Drop ‘em. Both of you.”
Unable to argue, Aurora had let go of her gun. Then she told Kai: “Shoot the son-of-a-bitch.”
Rhondo had tightened his hold on the lethal-looking knife and started to drag her backwards. When she’d struggled, it had given Kai his chance. Only, he was supposed to have shot the bad guy, not her.
Kai propped her against the wall and wiped his hands on his jeans. “You’re going to be fine now. I’ve still got a lead on Rhondo. I know exactly where he’s headed, and I intend to nab him before he cleans out his safe. If he retrieves his fake passports, we’ll lose him again.”
Aurora was confused. “Again? I thought you were new to Las Vegas.” She narrowed her eyes and gave him the hard, demanding stare that would have sent most of her team looking for somewhere else to be.
“Nah. I’ve tracked him here before, but he disappeared.”
“Why do I get the feeling what’s between you and Rhondo is personal?”