Avenge Me

by Maisey Yates

  He felt free.

  “Thank God for that. Now, baby...it’s your turn. Get on your knees.”

  Epilogue

  As a Lifetime Achievement Award Looms,

  Treffen’s Life Begins to Crumble!

  Shock waves went through Manhattan social circles when Lenore Treffen, wife of Jason Treffen for more than thirty years, demanded a divorce during Treffen’s celebrated New Year’s bash. What’s even more scandalous? The couple’s son has taken his mother’s case, and will be representing her during court proceedings.

  The reconciliation we all hoped for barely lasted from “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to “Auld Lang Syne.”

  With court documents being kept under wraps, and tempers turning ugly on both sides, we wonder what this means both for the future of the family and for Jason Treffen’s illustrious career.

  The pristine Treffen legacy is certainly showing some wear and tear...and we wonder if this will make the Jason Treffen Special all that much more interesting! We know one thing for certain—we’ll be watching as the drama unfolds.

  “You finally spent the money.”

  “Charitable donations hardly count as spending money,” Katy said, giving her fiancé the evil eye.

  Her fiancé. She really could get used to that. About the time she did, though, she imagined he’d be her husband.

  That sounded even better.

  She’d just come into his office, flushed and excited over gaining nonprofit status, her enjoyment of organization and planning put to far better use now than planning parties for Jason Treffen.

  “True,” Austin said, wrapping his arm around her. “The Sarah Michaels Foundation is something I’d gladly sink my life savings into. And I’m very happy it’s where you put my dad’s blood money.”

  “Me, too,” she said.

  The foundation would provide career, financial and personal counseling for women in difficult situations, with a focus on women who wanted to leave the sex industry. They were still working toward ultimate justice for Sarah, but at least in this there was some closure.

  At least with the foundation there was some action that wasn’t purely destructive. With this, she could create something with Sarah’s legacy. Help other people, not just tear down Jason Treffen.

  “I don’t ever want anyone to feel so hopeless, so ashamed, that they do what she did,” Katy continued. “I want them to know that there’s always a future.”

  Austin smiled at her, bent down and kissed her on the lips. “That seems to be the lesson you’re out to teach everyone.”

  “Oh, yeah?”

  “Yes. It’s what you taught me. That there’s light at the end of the tunnel. More than that, that I deserved to step out into it. That there was a future past the pain.”

  “What do you know? You taught me the same thing.” She wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in his chest, taking in his scent. It was such a wonderful thing to stand there with him. To know that even on this side of revenge there was happiness. New life.

  “You’ll redeem your name, Austin Treffen. I firmly believe that you’ll do the world much more good than he did harm.”

  “With your help, Katy.”

  “It’s true. I will be a Treffen in about eight months.”

  “You will. And you’ll have almost single-handedly redeemed both names. Sarah’s name, and mine.”

  “It’s fair, because I feel like you saved me.”

  “I think we saved each other, love,” he said.

  “You know, I think you’re right about that. We’re two halves of a whole. We make a lot more sense when we’re together.”

  “Good thing we’re going to be together forever, then.”

  Katy laughed and looked out at the sun shining on the skyline, drenching everything in light. “It’s a good thing, Austin. It’s a very good thing.”

  * * * * *

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  Scandalize Me

  It wasn’t the first time a man had propositioned her. But it was the first time she’d felt a burst of flame lick over her when he did, and she was terribly afraid he knew that, too. That he felt the same slap of heat.

  She couldn’t let that happen, it was impossible, so she shoved it aside.

  “Is that caveman code for ‘sleep with me so I can put you back in your proper place’?” she asked, cool and challenging and back on familiar ground, because she knew this routine. She could handle this. Jason Treffen had taught her well, one painful lesson at a time. “Because you should know before you try, dragging me off by my hair somewhere won’t end the way you think it will. I can promise you that.”

  Hunter looked intrigued and his head canted slightly to one side, but that wolfish regard of his never wavered—bright and hot and knowing. Reaching much too far inside her.

  “I don’t want to drag you off somewhere by your hair and have my way with you, Ms. Brook.”

  The smile on her lips turned mocking, but she was more concerned with the sudden long, slow thump of her heart and the heavy, wet heat low in her belly. “Because you’re not that kind of guy?”

  There was something more than predatory in his eyes then, hard and hot, a dark knowing in the curve of his mouth that connected with that deep drumroll inside her, making it her pulse, her breath, her worst fear come true.

  “I’m absolutely that kind of guy. But I told you. You have to ask me nicely.”

  He smiled, as if he was the one in control. And she couldn’t allow it.

  “No,” she said, furious that it came out like a whisper, thin and uncertain. His smile deepened for a moment, like a promise.

  “Your loss,” he murmured, and that aching fire swelled inside her, nearly bursting.


  And then he laughed again, dismissing her, and turned to go. Again. For good this time, she understood, and she couldn’t let that happen.

  Zoe had no choice.

  “I wouldn’t do that, Mr. Grant.” She didn’t know why that dryness in her mouth seemed to translate into something like trembling everywhere else, when she’d known before she’d approached him that it would probably come to this. She made herself smile. “I know about Sarah.”

  The second step to revenge in the Fifth Avenue trilogy

  Hunter has the money.…

  July 2014

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  ISBN-13: 9781460333181

  AVENGE ME

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