Dirty Twisted Love
Lili Valente
Lili Valente
Contents
Dirty Twisted Love
Copyright
About the Book
Dedication
1. Harley
2. Harley
3. Harley
4. Clay
5. Harley
6. Clay
7. Harley
8. Harley
9. Clay
10. Clay
11. Marlowe
Sneak Peek
Acknowledgments
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About the Author
Also By Lili Valente
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Copyright Dirty Twisted Love © 2015 Lili Valente
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ISBN: 978-1-940848-58-7
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About the Book
Warning: This is a dark enemies-to-lovers romance that contains violence, a damaged alpha male, and dirty twisted hate banging. Read at your own risk.
The first time CIA Agent Clay Hart fell for Harley Mason, she nearly killed him. But she won’t get another chance at his heart or his life. He’s going to take the son she’s hidden from him for years, send her to jail where she belongs, and never look back.
Harley isn’t the sick twisted person she used to be, but sins have a long half-life and rage an even longer reach. Now the only man she’s ever loved is back from the dead and determined to take away her reason for living. But she won’t give up her son without one hell of a dirty, twisted, sexy fight.
She won’t give up.
He won’t give in.
And neither of them is prepared for the sparks that fly between them or the shared enemy determined to destroy them both.
* *Dirty Twisted Love is the first installment in the Dirty Twisted Love romance series. It is a spin-off of the Bought by the Billionaire series, but can be read as a standalone romance. This is a SERIAL story, with a CLIFFHANGER ending. If you don’t like being teased, steer clear.* *
Dedicated to M.F. my cohort for life.
Chapter One
Harley
Just a few more weeks.
Just a few more weeks, one last job, and she and Jasper would finally be safe.
Harley studied her reflection in the small mirror above the outdoor sink, trying to see if she was buying her own encouraging load of bullshit. But her blue eyes were cool and calm. Her eyes kept their secrets, refusing to say if they believed in happily ever after.
Happily ever after. Riiiight.
I’m sure that’s right around the corner, along with Santa Claus and Prince Charming riding a unicorn.
She turned to face the beach with a sigh the sea breeze swept away. Happily ever after was definitely a long shot. At this point, she would settle for being able to stop looking over her shoulder and take for granted that she would live to see her thirtieth birthday. Ian Hawke—her father’s enemy and the man who had nearly killed Harley and her twin sister, Hannah, last December—was dead, but her own enemies were still very much among the living.
Marlowe Reynolds considered her a friend, or at least a trusted associate, but if he realized she wanted out, she would see the terrifying side of the soft-spoken Brit. He was the most successful drug lord in Europe, and a man didn’t run a multi-billion dollar cartel for over a decade without knowing how to keep his friends close, his enemies dead, and people who knew too much tucked firmly beneath his wing. Marlowe didn’t let people walk away; he made the malcontent disappear. In order to make her escape, Harley was going to have to be very smart, very careful, and very lucky.
Smart and careful she could control, but luck didn’t take directions.
Therefore, precautions had to be taken.
Harley’s gaze drifted to the sheltered section of the private beach, where Jasper was busy digging a hole so deep only the top of his tousled blond hair showed above the sand. Before she and Dominic had started running sprints along the shoreline, she’d asked Jasper what he was digging for, but he’d refused to say, only giving her a mysterious grin and a vague “you’ll see.”
With his dark blond hair, murky blue eyes several shades darker than her own, and golden skin, Jasper looked like his father, but he kept his secrets close to his chest like his mother.
Sometimes Harley worried that he was too much like her, and that his insatiable curiosity would lead him into the same labyrinth she’d wandered most of her life, a place where the walls of perception were always shifting and each ugly new revelation only forced you deeper into the maze. But most of the time she believed in nurture triumphing over nature. She wasn’t raising Jasper the way she had been raised. He was being taught that kindness was a strength, not a signal to attack at will, and as he grew she would continue to help him channel his curiosity into more productive pursuits than the ones she’d been steered toward.