by Linzi Baxter
He’d known they would call, but he hadn’t thought it would be only two weeks after he’d called his eldest brother and asked to use the plane. That was the first time in eight years that he’d heard his brother’s voice. Bryson had said he could use the plane, but he’d owe his brother a favor. Nothing in the Walker family came for free.
Bryson ran Walker Oil. Cole assumed his brother wasn’t doing things aboveboard. Ian sure as hell knew his father was corrupt. The second he heard Cole’s father had taken money to shut down a school program, he’d lost all respect for him.
Cole’s mom had turned a blind eye to his father's dealings. As long as she kept the lifestyle she was used to, she didn’t care what he did. Cole hadn’t even thought of her as his mom when he was growing up. He was raised by nannies. His mom couldn’t be bothered to take care of her kids. Nathen, his other brother, had become sick when his parents were overseas, and his mom wouldn’t cut the trip short, so Nathen spent six days in ICU without his mom. Cole never understood how his two older brothers had stayed around to deal with his parents.
Bryson seemed to be calling in his favor. It had been the fifth time he called in the past five hours. He’d left voicemails, but Cole had chosen not to listen to them. Cole guessed it was time to pay up.
He leaned back in his Range Rover and looked at the house he’d just purchased. He wanted to look inside and give Ian and Bella an update. They’d purchased the house sight unseen. The price was lower than the lot, so if all failed, they would tear the house down.
Bryson’s name flashed across the screen. Cole swiped his finger to get the conversation over with and see what he’d sold his soul for. “Bryson.”
“About time you fucking answered. You need to answer when I call.” Bryson expected everyone to jump when he spoke. It was one of the reasons they didn’t get along.
Cole pinched the bridge of his nose and took a few calming breaths. “What do you need, Bryson?”
“You are to be at family dinner this Sunday.”
Attending a family dinner wasn’t what he’d expected Bryson would demand. Cole hadn’t talked to anyone in his family in eight years, including his parents. He didn’t want to see any of them.
“Is this the favor? If I show up to family dinner, you won’t ask me to do anything else?”
“No, we will discuss your favor after family dinner. Be at Mom and Dad’s Sunday at seven.”
Before Cole had time to respond, Bryson clicked the phone off. Fuck. One dinner. He could do this.
He had six days to figure out what to do with his family. Cole walked up to the condemned house they’d just purchased at auction. When he opened the door, he was hit with a smell so strong he thought he would throw up. It smelled like a mixture of crap and vomit.
Using his shirt, he covered his nose and headed into the house. Poop was smeared over the walls in the living room. Trash lined the floor, and he had to step over a pile of needles. The house seemed to be a crack den. He reached for his gun in his holster. Cole never left his house without his Glock.
Each room he walked through was lined with trash and human fecal matter. He couldn’t understand how someone could squat in that house. When he entered the last room, he stopped in his tracks. A woman who was skin and bones and covered in dirt was pointing a gun at him.
“Ma’am, please lower the gun, and we can talk.”
“You won’t take me back.”
He didn’t have time to ask questions before she fired the gun in his direction.
The End
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GRAYSON’S ANGEL
MONTANA GOLD
A life she thought she left behind…
Kara Davidson left Montana years ago. After her mother died, she decided to never step foot in the state again. Then she gets a call saying her father is in the hospital. Her trip home is supposed to be quick. She didn’t count on meeting a retired Navy SEAL who made her body come alive.
A retired Navy SEAL looking forward to vacation…
Grayson Steele was looking forward to a vacation with old friends. The vacation starts out perfect when he is seated next to a blond angel on the flight to Montana. He didn’t expect to see her again or for her to jump into his car wearing a bloody wedding dress.
Will Grayson be able to help Kara untangle the lies of her past before it’s too late? Or will an unexpected enemy take Kara from Grayson?
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After my father loses the Ross fortune in a pyramid scheme, I never expect to see Alex and his brothers again. But fate has other plans.
It’s been ten years since my family went into hiding, ten years since I last saw the chiseled face of Alex. But he haunts my dreams, like a ghost who won’t leave me alone. Now a hacker in charge of a cybersecurity agency, I refuse to visit my father while he’s rotting away in prison. In fact, I want nothing more than to forget the whole thing happened at all.
But the minute Alex Ross walks back into my life, ignoring my past becomes impossible. A million dollars has been stolen from his company, and he needs my help to track down the culprit. I don’t need the distraction, but with a body carved from marble and a face that would make even da Vinci weep, Alex is just that. I should say no...
Instead, driven by a desperate need to redeem myself and my family, I reluctantly agree. But as I dig deeper into the theft from Ross Enterprise, and the thief goes to incredible lengths to evade the police, we find ourselves caught in the crossfire.
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Linzi Baxter lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and lazy basset hound. She started writing when voices inside her head wouldn’t stop talking until the story was told. When not at work as an IT Manager, Linzi enjoys writing action-packed romances that will take you to the edge of your seat.
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