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by Morgan Kelley


  Lennox didn’t know what to say. Her heart was pounding in her chest. There was no way he was there. There was no way that after the last week he came back. Fate didn’t like her that much.

  “It shouldn’t be here, Lennox. It shouldn’t be for sale.”

  “It wasn’t,” she offered. “What do you want, Everhart? Why are you here?”

  He moved closer to her. “I was so very wrong.”

  “About?” she asked, trying not to think about how sexy he looked in his suit.

  “I walked away so you could go to New York and fulfill your dreams. I didn’t think I had anything to offer you to make you stay, Lennox. I didn’t think I was worthy of you. I was wrong.”

  She didn’t speak.

  Lennox wanted to cry. This couldn’t be happening.

  “Everhart.”

  He touched her lips with his fingertips to silence her. It wasn’t easy. Hart could barely focus. She looked so damn beautiful. She was wearing a sequined gown, and it was in a gorgeous gold color. It made the red of her hair stand out.

  Here was his soul mate.

  Here was the woman meant to be his wife.

  She was supposed to be Ivy’s mother.

  Hart knew it to his core.

  “I do have something to offer you if you’ll forgive me for being a fool. I assumed, and it was wrong. I do that a lot with you, and I have no excuse.”

  She didn’t know what to say.

  “I love you, Lennox. I have something I can give you. I can give you my heart, my love, and my child.”

  Lennox looked down and Ivy was there in a frilly pink dress. In her little hand was a black box.

  “Mommy?” she asked, smiling up at her.

  The tears came.

  How could they not? Lennox didn’t only want him in her life, but she wanted that chance to be a mother to his little girl.

  God!

  She had a second chance!

  Hart took the box from Ivy and flipped it open. Inside, there was a heart shaped ruby, surrounded by diamonds.

  She’d never seen anything more amazing in her life.

  “Marry Daddy,” Ivy stated.

  “Like Ivy said—will you please do me the honor of marrying me?” he asked, dropping down on one knee. Ivy sat on it and together, they waited.

  Lennox couldn’t think.

  She was pretty sure this wasn’t real.

  “Everhart.”

  “I see you, Lennox Easton. I always have. Marry me, and make us your family. We’ll love you for the rest of our lives. I’m not rich, but I’ll be able to love you with everything in me until my last breath. I will share with you the one treasure I have.”

  Ivy tugged on her dress. “You pretty.”

  What could she say to that?

  “Yes, Everhart. I’ll marry you.” She got down in her expensive dress and looked right into Ivy’s eyes.

  “No, you pretty.”

  Ivy laughed. “No, you pretty, Mommy.”

  Her heart skipped.

  “Yes, Ivy. I am your mommy.”

  To Everhart Rose, those were the best words he’d ever heard. As he kissed his fiancée, he knew the truth.

  His life was now complete. They were going to be a family.

  Forever.

  * * * L i t t l e m o o n * * *

  Beau knew he was doing exactly the opposite of what Julian wanted him to do.

  By going to see Shelby, he knew the shit was going to hit the fan, but he had to do it. The media was making Tori’s life hell, and she’d just had a baby.

  He was going to try to talk his mother out of this nonsense. Beau really believed he could do it.

  As he knocked on the door of the hotel room she was staying in, he waited.

  Nothing.

  When he knocked again, he realized that the door wasn’t quite locked. It moved.

  “Mom?” he called, pushing it open.

  The scent of blood hit him before he was even in the door. Racing in, he found her on the floor in a puddle of her own blood.

  “MOM!” he said, dropping down next to her. He shook her and then felt for her pulse.

  She was dead.

  As he went to pull out his phone, he heard the door again, and he looked up.

  Beau was staring down the nose of a gun.

  “You’re under arrest!”

  He froze.

  Jesus!

  “Officer! I didn’t,” he began, only to be tackled to the ground. His mother’s blood soaked into his clothes, and coated his skin as he fought to get out of it.

  He could feel it.

  Smell it.

  It freaked him out.

  Everything went by in a blur.

  He remembered being dragged to the police car. Beau recalled booking as he stood there in his mother’s blood.

  He remembered being handed the phone to make his one phone call.

  So he dialed.

  It rang.

  “Hello?” came the voice.

  “Julian?”

  “Beau? It’s really late. What’s wrong?”

  “I went to see my mother. When I got there, she was dead. The cops…they think I did it. I’m in jail. They think I murdered my mother. I need you, Julian. Help me.”

  “I’ll be right there.”

  Julian hung up the phone.

  “What’s wrong?” Tori asked sleepily from beside him.

  “We have our new case.”

  She didn’t get it. “What?”

  He knew this was going to sting. “Tori, that was Beau. He’s just been arrested for the murder of Shelby Christensen.”

  She stared at him.

  “Our next case is to get Beau off this murder charge.”

  “Oh my God,” she whispered, right before she started crying for her brother.

  The Littlemoons were now fighting for one of their own.

  And it was going to be a battle.

  One they couldn’t lose.

  Coming Next:

  Act of Blood

  Book 16 in the FBI series

  October 2016

  Other books by Morgan Kelley:

  Standalone books

  The Junction

  Serial Sins

  The Blood Betrayal

  Romance/FBI Thriller Series

  Elizabeth, Ethan, and Callen

  The Killing Times (book 1)

  Sacred Burial Grounds (book 2)

  True Love Lost (book 3)

  Deep Dark Mire (book 4)

  Fire Burns Hot (book 5)

  Darkness of Truth (book 6)

  Devil Hath Come (book 7)

  Consumed by Wrath (book 8)

  Redemption is Here (book 9)

  Dead Shall Speak (book 10)

  Pledging to Die (book 11)

  Slay Bells Ring (book 12)

  Past will Haunt (13)

  Choices will Destroy (14)

  Blood shall Run (15)

  Act of Blood (16)

  Stalked by the Past (17) Feb 2017

  Dying to Love (18) Feb 2017

  Croft & Croft Romance Adventure Series

  Greyson and Emma Croft

  Celestia is Falling (book 1)

  Vegas is Dying (book 2)

  Christmas is Killing (book 3)

  Love is Bleeding (book 4)

  Heaven is Weeping (book 5)

  Hell is Burning (book 6)

  Justice is Dying (book 7)

  The Justice Series

  Greyson and Emma Croft spinoff series

  Dark Justice (1)

  The Littlemoon Investigations Series

  Julian and Tori Littlemoon

  Blood Red Rage (book 1)

  Lost & Broken (book 2)

  Unthinkable Games (book 3)

  Truth is Found (book 4)

  Haven of Nightmares (book 5)

  Forbidden Secrets (book 6)

  The Carter Chronicles Trilogy

  Callista, Nathaniel, and Lucas

  Sinner Repent (book 1)

>   Sinner Realized (book 2)

  Sinner Reborn (book 3)

  The Oracle Chronicles Series

  Nathaniel Carter and Avalon Miller

  Oracle Rising (book 1)

  Oracle Seeing (book 2)

  Oracle Saving (book 3)January 2017

  Harcourte Vampyre Society

  Jolie, Jacques and Flynn

  Dangerous Revelations (book 1)

  Dangerous Choices (book 2)

  Dangerous Misery (book 3)

  Dangerous Retaliation (book 4)

  Dangerous Influence (book 5) November 2016

  Dangerous Sacrifice (book 6) December 2016

  Anthologies

  All the couples in one book

  Illegal Fantasies-

  Behind Closed Doors(1)

  Romance Under Arrest-

  Behind Closed Doors(2)

  Holiday Reinforcements-

  Behind Closed Doors (3)

  Please feel free to visit her at her blog at

  www.morgankelley.blogspot.com

  * * * L i t t l e m o o n * * *

  MK

 

 

 


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