Ultimate Vengeance
Wanted
Men, #4
by Nancy Haviland
Publication Date: May 31st 2016
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Mafia Romance, Organized
Crime
BLURB
Sixteen months ago, Alekzander Tarasov made the mistake of his
life when he annihilated his relationship with his soulmate. At the time,
protecting her was his only thought. Now, after attempting to live without her,
his focus has changed. He wants her back where she belongs. And he’ll stop at
nothing to drag his curvy angel away from her new life and so deep into his
world of violence and uncertainty she’ll never find her way out again. Through a deluge of secrets and lies,
disillusionment and broken faith enters a world where loyalty and trust reign.
Will Alek and Sacha’s battered love be strong enough to survive? Or will it be
a sense of duty that inexorably binds them together in the end?
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No. She couldn’t get Alekzander into trouble with the law simply
because he’d stopped loving her and had chosen to move on without telling her
first. She should. She should spill every little secret she had, not that there
were many. But she never would. Despite everything, he was her daughter’s
father.
Then again, she thought, feeling ill, if it came down to it and
she had to choose between keeping Lekzi in her life and Alekzander’s freedom, well,
there was no choice. But until then…
“That would not work because I was never personally aware of
anything he or his family did that might have been illegal. For all I know,
their intimidating reputation could have been created simply to make themselves
feel special.”
She saw Justin’s head turn her way but didn’t meet the look
because then he’d see she was lying through her teeth. He tapped his thumbs on
the steering wheel.
“This may sound insensitive, but why didn’t you go back home to
your family when things fell apart here?”
Wishing he could drive faster, she answered honestly. “I am an
only child, and, as you know, my parents are gone. But even if I had someone
there, at that time, I could not afford to go home.” He frowned in confusion,
so she went on, her cheeks heating. “While I was with Alekzander, I did not
work, or go back to school as I had planned. When I left Russia, I dropped out
of my fourth year of university,” she explained. “But I had every intention of
applying to colleges here so I could finish my liberal arts degree. I had
planned to go into the field of Human Resources, but, as I said, I did not.”
She moved on because she could hear how defensive she was beginning to sound.
“Alekzander enjoyed having me at home, and I enjoyed being there for him.”
Shame coated that last bit, revealing how little she thought of
the decision she’d made back then. She should never have given up her
independence. She suspected that had much to do with what had happened.
“So he kept you broke and dependent on him?” Justin questioned as
they came out of the tunnel and traveled the relatively empty streets of Queens
heading for Sunnyside.
“No, of course not. He was very generous. I had credit cards and a
bank account that I could use freely.”
Feeling small, she wanted to add that she wasn’t a parasite, but
hearing herself, she found she couldn’t. Her and Alekzander’s first real fight
had been about her working to save the money she would need to return to
school. He’d convinced her it wasn’t something that had to be decided right
then and had quieted her protests by saying they’d discuss her education later.
It had always been later. And she’d let him get away with discounting her
future. Had she not been such a pushover, so eager to please him, would things
have been different?
“I did not use his money after things ended,” she murmured.
“Why? Any other woman, especially a pregnant one, would have
withdrawn a large chunk of cash—especially because as a Tarasov he could
certainly afford it—and lived off it until she was back on her feet. Why didn’t
you?”
“Because I did not want his money. I did not want anything
from him.” She shifted, grinding her teeth at the warble in her voice. It
signified weakness, and that embarrassed her. “Anyway,” she said, sneaking in
another common word Americans used regularly. “How could I go home when I did
not have enough money to buy an airline ticket, to rent an apartment once I got
there, and to live until I found a job? I could not. So I stayed here where it
had already become familiar. And Lekzi and I have done fine without him. Our
life is simple, but that is all we need.” She might not have two homes and a
private jet, but despite having to save most of her earnings, she was providing
for her daughter, and she was proud of that.
When they eventually turned onto her street, she tried not to
think about what it would cost her, financially and emotionally, to start over
again. Another new city, no friends, no job, no place to live. And it would be
so much worse this time because she was dragging her innocent daughter along,
making her baby suffer for the sins of her parents…
The world stilled for a split second before Sacha felt the impact
of her reality hit with the force of a punch.
A group of well-dressed men milled about in front of her apartment
building. Two were on the sidewalk speaking with a uniformed NYPD officer while
another two stood in front of the main entrance of the three-story walk-up.
Oh, God. “I told you.” Her whisper was eerily accepting. “He has come
for me.”
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Author Info
Nancy Haviland, author of the
bestselling organized crime series, WANTED MEN, writes about
her alpha mobsters and their ladies from her home near Toronto, Ontario. She
fights for space on her keyboard with her arrogant kitty named Talbot, and
adores her Tim Horton’s coffee; as any self-respecting Canadian would. She
writes contemporary romantic suspense but will happily read anything that
involves two people smooching. A
member of Romance Writers of America, Nancy is represented by Nalini Akolekar
of Spencerhill Associates, and is published by Montlake Romance/Amazon
Publishing.
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