All Diamond ever wanted was the one man she could never have. Now, the shadowy figure who took him away from her is going to pay.
Her special ops training has equipped her to handle the most dangerous situations, but controlling her own emotions isn’t so easy. Is she broken beyond repair? As Diamond takes off for South America with her team in tow, she doesn’t care. All she wants is justice.
Can love conquer all?
Or will it die trying?
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Excerpt – The past…
A battered yellow cab drove into the parking lot, and I paused with one foot over the threshold. Was that Black? Oh, please let that be Black.
The car pulled up at the kerb, and sure enough, he was in the backseat. My lucky day. He reached one tanned, muscular arm out to pay the driver, and it was my turn to sigh. How did he go brown so quickly? It took me a week to get a healthy glow. Fifty bucks said he’d been doing too much surfing and not enough work.
We’d be having words about that. If Black planned on slacking when Alex had made me run seventeen miles yesterday, he had another think coming.
Black needed a haircut too. He’d said that three weeks ago, but clearly lazing around in the sun had taken precedence and now his hair was curling over his collar. I’d just stepped forward, trying to think up some pithy remark about him being a beach bum, when movement to my left caught my attention.
Thirty yards away, the side door of a white van slid open. The “Flowers 2 You” logo emblazoned on the side in Pepto-Bismol pink peeled around the edges, but that wasn’t what bothered me. The door was opening all on its own, or at least it seemed to be. Where was the delivery guy?
That picture wasn’t quite right.
Something poked out from the gloom inside. A cylinder with a bulbous tip. Dark grey or green, perhaps. As I focused, the figure of a man inside became clear, holding…
Holy fuck! He was holding a fucking RPG launcher.
“Black! Blaaaaaaack! Get out!”
The world moved in slow motion as I spun and ran towards the car, but my bloody heel broke and I went down on one knee. I scrambled up just as Black turned his head and looked at me, probably wondering why the hell I was making so much noise. As our eyes met, a streak of flame flew past me and hit him.
Dead centre.
He didn’t even see it coming.
Excerpt – The present…
I looked down at my red phone, the one I kept for emergencies only, and the display showed an unknown number calling.
No way.
No way could that bastard be calling tonight.
Not on my birthday. Not when I was supposed to be having fun.
Yeah, technically I didn’t know it was him because I hadn’t answered the phone yet, but I knew.
I just knew.
Which was why when I answered, rather than my usual “Yeah,” I greeted him with, “What the fuck do you want?”
The electronic voice came back at me. “Is that any way to greet the man who holds your life in his hands?”
“I’ll ask if I ever speak to him.”
“You’ve got a lot of fight for such a delicate thing. It’s a shame you don’t have some obedience instead. I was generous. I gave you two warnings, but you just couldn’t hold back, could you?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Except in a moment of clarity, I suddenly did. The drugs. It had to be the drugs. This guy had money, he had connections, and when he killed Black, it was with a flair for the dramatic, a trait not uncommon among drug lords who wanted to send a message telling everyone not to fuck with them.
So while I’d insisted I wanted everybody to avoid any trouble, I’d spent the last week inadvertently stirring it up all by myself. Fuck, fuck, fuck indeed.
A distorted cackle came down the line. “I wish I could say I believed you, but I don’t. Happy birthday, Ms. Black. I hope you like your surprise.”
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A little bonus…
When you get to the end of Forever Black, you'll find a link to download an extra story! I couldn't resist writing a little more about the man himself! If you buy the dirty version, you'll get Black, and if you buy the clean version, you'll get Black to Vegas 🙂
