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Then one late night changed everything for her. Sonnet witnessed powerful crime boss Roman Granger murder his own son.

Roman came to me because I was one-third of the Street Kings, and handling problems quietly was what I did. He told me Sonnet had witnessed his son’s murder and that he needed to know exactly what she saw before the police found her and started digging deeper into his organization. He made it sound like he wanted answers so he could find whoever killed his son and handle it himself. I took the assignment believing I was helping a father avenge his son’s death. I had no idea Roman was the man who killed him.

By the time I realized Sonnet wasn’t simply a witness Roman wanted questioned, I was already in too deep. Roman didn’t need information from her. He needed the only person who could expose him gone. And I wasn’t giving her to him.
Sonnet was supposed to be business. Instead, I found myself falling for a beautiful, brilliant, guarded woman who questioned everything I told her and fought me every chance she got. The more I learned about her, the less she felt like an assignment. Somewhere along the way, protecting her stopped being part of the job and became personal.

The problem was Sonnet had every reason not to trust me. I was the man who’d kidnapped her.

But as Roman closed in and the situation became more deadly, Sonnet and I had no choice but to depend on each other. She started seeing me as more than the man who had forced his way into her life, and I started realizing she had gotten further under my skin than any woman ever had.

Roman Granger thought Sonnet was a loose end he could erase.

He was about to learn that getting to her meant going through me first.

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