The first in a sexy contemporary romance series featuring the Lawless siblings—from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.
The Lawless siblings are bound by vengeance. Riley, Drew, Brandon, and Mia believe the CEO of StratCast orchestrated their parents’ murder twenty years ago to steal their father’s software program. And there’s only one way Riley can find some solid evidence...
Heir to the StratCast legacy, Ellie Stratton hires a new attorney to handle a delicate business matter—and she’s shocked by her attraction to him. Over the course of a few weeks, Riley becomes her lover, her friend, her everything. But when her life is threatened, Ellie discovers that Riley is more obsessed with settling an old score than in the love she thought they were building. And Riley must choose between a revenge he’s prepared for all his life and the woman he’s sure he can’t live without...
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“Smart, savvy, clever, and always entertaining. That’s true of Riley Lawless, the hero in Ruthless, and likewise for his creator, Lexi Blake. Both are way ahead of the pack.” ~ New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry "I love Lexi Blake. Read Ruthless and see why.” ~ New York Times bestselling author Lee Child With Ruthless, Lexi Blake has set up shop on the intersection of Suspenseful and Sexy, and I never want to leave. ~ Laurelin Paige, New York Times bestselling author Ruthless is full of suspense, hot sex, and swoon worthy characters -- a must read!" ~ New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst
“Why
did you do that?”
It
was the first time she’d spoken without being prompted. “Do
what?”
Her
face flushed the sweetest pink. The color went all the way down that
sexy V-neck. Her breasts flushed as well as her face, and it made his
damn dick tighten. “Kiss me. Why did you kiss me like that?”
Oh,
so many reasons, but he gave her the most compelling one. “I wanted
to.”
The
minute she’d opened the door and he’d seen her standing there
looking anxious, he’d known how to calm her down. All he’d had to
do was put his hands on her and some odd connection flared between
the two of them. She hadn’t fought him. He could have gone on
kissing her. He’d been the one to pull away.
It
was like the minute he walked in, he was the only thing that existed
for her. It made him feel ten feet tall, but it also made him want to
please her.
It
was an unsettling sensation.
Her
hands came up, fingers on the sides of the table. “You know what
I’m asking. You knew I wasn’t alone. Why did you pretend to be my
boyfriend?”
It
was easy to see she’d wanted him to wait for her at the restaurant
so as to avoid him meeting her sister and ex. When she’d opened the
door, he’d immediately known something was wrong. He’d gotten a
glimpse of her sister and known Ellie had likely needed a hand. It
had to be tough on a woman’s ego to lose even a pathetic excuse of
a husband to a younger sister.
“You
were alone with your sister who slept with your husband. Excuse me.
Ex-husband.”
She
shook her head. “At the time, we were definitely married. How did
you know he was my ex-husband?”
“He
took half your net wealth. I’m your lawyer. At this level, a good
lawyer is less legal counsel and more war consultant. I can’t
properly perform my duties if I don’t know everything about you,
including the fact that you tend to have terrible taste in men.”
She
frowned. “I haven’t had a ton of boyfriends. I’m not sure what
my taste is.”
He
really wanted to understand why she’d married that obvious prick.
“What attracted you to him? Because from where I was standing, he
looked like a dickwad desperate to be twenty-one again.”
She
bit into her bottom lip, her eyes glancing away from him. “He
wasn’t always like that. I actually met him when he was twenty-one.
He was far more mature then.”
He
liked her candor. “You were in college?”
“Last
year of undergrad. We dated for two years and then it seemed like it
was time to get married. We’d moved back here to Manhattan so I
could take my place at StratCast. I thought he was going to go to
grad school, but he decided on a different path.”
“What
path was that?”
A
single brow rose over her right eye. “You don’t know?”
Of
course he knew. He knew everything. “Are you referring to your
ex-husband’s penchant for swinging for the fences? When it comes to
investments, that is.”
It
was what he liked to call “idiots who funded ridiculous ideas.”
They never wanted a simple profit out of their money. They wanted
millions and really fucking fast. They swung for the grand slam when
all they needed to do was get on base.
It
took a true genius to take a single idea and make millions off it.
Drew had.
Her
shoulders straightened. “He wanted the easy solution. A
get-rich-quick scheme. He wasn’t that way at first. At one point he
was very intellectual. It’s what attracted me to him. He was
curious about the world and liked to discuss everything from politics
to social jus- tice to movies we saw. He changed. I didn’t. In some
ways, I blame getting involved with me for what happened to him. He
got around my father and real wealth and wanted some of his own. When
I met him, he wanted to be a professor. He wanted to teach.”
At
least he’d gotten her this far. She was talking. Now he needed to
get those shoulders down from around her earlobes. For one moment,
for that moment when he’d drawn her into his arms and pressed his
mouth to hers, she’d relaxed against him, given over to him. Her
body had softened and she’d leaned into him, and if he’d pressed
her, he didn’t know what would have happened. She might have
continued kissing him, forgetting all about the other people in the
room. He could have cupped her breast, her ass. Put his hands
anywhere he liked.
She
hadn’t given a damn that they hadn’t been alone. All she’d
cared about was him.
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog int eh world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.
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