Zari wouldn’t want to be with a man who was a killer. A girl like that wants someone with health insurance and a retirement plan. No question, she deserved a clean guy like that. I’d cut down every one of those cargo pants-wearing losers if they touched her, though.
From the second Zari raised her warm brown eyes to mine, I've been lost for the girl. She's weak, though. Fragile. And if that's not bad enough, the crime syndicate my organization works with is about two seconds from blowing her head off--if they can get her back from me. I don't care what she did to them. I'll slit every one of their throats if it keeps her safe. As long as she doesn't leave me, I can handle whatever comes our way.

I’d wanted him for the long months that I’d been alone, dreamed about him at night. When I’d slide my hand down my torso in the darkest hours, it was his face I’d remember, tensed with pleasure as I took him into my mouth or bold and possessive when he slipped inside me.
I didn't know I wanted Stone until he saved me from the man about to put a bullet in my brain. I never wanted a bad boy like that, with his pale hands and wicked mouth. Every time he touches me, I'm ready to give up almost everything to be by his side. But there are some things he doesn't know about me. He wants to protect a weak, innocent girl. But I'm not innocent. Not even a little.

And when he finds out, he might kill me himself.

When Stone saves Zari from a crime boss she insists took her by accident, he can't know the secrets of her past or the secrets in her blood. It's only a matter of time before old truths come to light.

Wicked Lies is a complete novel with 60k+ words, standalone with an HEA and no cheating.