Read the action-packed finale of the USA Today bestselling Red Stone Security
series!
He broke her heart.
Graysen’s betrayal nearly destroyed Isa
a year ago. Now that she’s working for Red Stone Security, she’s managed to
piece her life back together after a rough year and a broken heart. Then he
appears back in her life and makes it clear he’s not going anywhere until she
gives them a second chance. A chance she refuses to take.
Now he’s back to claim what’s his.
Graysen’s never gotten over Isa and he
knows he never will. It’s his fault she walked away, but he can’t seem to let
her go. He quit his job with the CIA and called in every favor he had to get
hired by Red Stone Security just to be near her again. But Isa doesn’t care
that he’s desperate to make things right between them—she wants nothing to do
with him. He doesn’t blame her, but he’s not willing to give her up. When
they’re cornered by lethal terrorists, everything changes. Graysen and Isa will
have to find a way to work together if they want to survive. Only then will he
be able to convince her to claim the chance at happiness the past stole from
them.
Author note: All books in this
series can be read as stand-alones.
Lethal Game Excerpt
Copyright 2017 © Katie Reus
“Don’t
give me that look,” Graysen snarled as he slid into the seat across from
Harrison. He’d been waiting for that CEO to leave.
Harrison
had started to respond when the bartender who’d been serving Graysen earlier
approached the table. “You leaving the bar?”
“Yeah,
joining a friend.” He tried not to snarl at her, since she was just doing her
job. “I’ll close out my tab.” He pulled out a few bills and left them on the
table. “Keep the change.”
Her
eyes widened slightly but she just nodded and pocketed the money—then not so
subtly left a piece of paper with her phone number on it in its place. “I get
off in an hour.”
He
didn’t respond as she left, but crumpled the paper up once he was sure she
wasn’t looking and tossed it into the empty ice bucket. He didn’t want anyone
but Isa.
“What
were you thinking, showing up here?” Harrison’s voice was razor sharp.
“I
had to see her.” Graysen knew he’d be meeting with Isa tomorrow, but the urge
to get just a glimpse of her again in person was too much. The woman was his
obsession. After a year of no contact, no hearing her voice, he was at his
breaking point.
Harrison
scrubbed a hand over his face, the action out of place on the normally stoic
man. “She’s going to be pissed tomorrow.”
“She’ll
get over it.” Isa had to. She had to forgive him. He couldn’t live with
anything less. He wouldn’t. “And I’m bringing you a huge job.” Graysen had gone
to Keith Caldwell instead of Harrison, asking Harrison’s father—also the founder
of Red Stone Security—to hire him now that he’d left the Agency. He was more
than qualified, but he didn’t just want a job.
He wanted to specifically work with Isa. So he’d brought an exclusive
government contract Red Stone wouldn’t want to turn down. It was practically
tailored for Isa’s expertise. If she was forced to work with Graysen, he could
remind her how good they’d been together. And he could work on getting her to
forgive him. Which…was the biggest problem.
“Yeah,
and you never let me forget it,” Harrison muttered.
Graysen
lifted a shoulder. He wasn’t sorry. He’d do anything to get Isa back. Once
she’d left him he’d gone into a downward spiral. After trying to get her to
forgive him, apologizing too many times to count only to be shut out, he’d
drowned himself in vodka for about a month until he’d realized he was being a
giant pussy. He wasn’t just going to let her go. So he’d spent the last few
months working on getting a huge contract to bring to Red Stone when he left
the CIA. It had been a balancing act, getting this contract while still working
for the government. But a lot of people owed him favors and he’d cashed in a
ton of them. She was that important to him. Hell, she was the most important
thing to him.
“If
she refuses to work with you—”
“She
won’t.”
Harrison
eyed him over the top of his beer, his expression unconvinced. Harrison was a
couple years younger than Graysen but he’d been a damn good agent back when
they’d been in Black Ops together. They hadn’t worked together often, but Harrison
was one of the few people Graysen truly respected. The man had a solid code of
honor and he was a patriot. Maybe more of a Boy Scout than Graysen, but that
wasn’t necessarily a bad trait.
Televisions
blared inane sports bullshit above them and people were talking and laughing
with no concern for anyone around them. Whereas he knew how many people were at
the bar right now, the specific layout of the restaurant, how many exits there
were—which were closest—and how many people were outside the window. No doubt
Harrison could detail all that information as well.
“Mara’s
pissed about the whole situation,” Harrison said.
“You
told her?” He snapped out the words louder than he’d planned, but no one around
them seemed to notice.
“Yep.”
No apology from Harrison either.
“Is
she going to tell Isa?” Because Harrison had made it clear to Graysen that Isa
meant a lot to Mara. And Mara had been a spook too. Graysen wasn’t exactly sure
which branch but he guessed MI6.
“No,
but she wants to.”
“After
tomorrow it won’t matter.”
“Look…just
don’t get your hopes up about this.” For the first time since Graysen had known
Harrison, the guy actually looked and sounded concerned. For him.
“About
what?”
“About
Isa. She’s never mentioned you, never mentioned an ex, nothing. And what you
did was… I don’t know if you can come back from that.”
Graysen
didn’t respond, just turned to stare out the window at the passing traffic and
the bright lights of downtown Miami. Yeah, he’d screwed up good. That was the
understatement of the century.
He’d
infiltrated her father’s business, lied about who he was, seduced her and
broken her heart—and inadvertently gotten her father killed.
If
it was the last damn thing he did, he was going to make things right between
them.
Katie Reus is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Darkness series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it.
However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.
For more information on Katie please visit her website. Also find her on twitter @katiereus or visit her on Facebook.
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