Violent Ends (White Monarch Book 2)

by Jessica Hawkins

  I squeezed with the strength of a body that had faced death countless times and was still standing. A body that had taken down men three times the size of this scum. A body that had triumphed.

  And then I reached into the depths of my reserves for even more—the reserves that had kept me alive in the past, the ones that I’d always fallen back on to save my own life. Now, I called on them for Natalia.

  But the body I’d always depended on, which had stumbled but never fallen, that had racked up kill after kill—it failed me now. My vision darkened as I dropped him and fell back onto my knees, wheezing for breath.

  I couldn’t slip into the darkness. I fought against it. To lay my eyes on her and know she was okay, to kiss lips I’d barely begun to learn. To speak the things I couldn’t imagine never saying . . .

  I mouthed her name. I needed to return to her, to my . . . my . . . “Natalia—”

  “Don’t worry about Natalia.” It took every effort to lift my head and meet the Belmonte-Ruiz member’s eyes as he stood over me with his bloody dagger. His mouth slid into a menacing smile. “Your wife is next.”

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  Acknowledgments

  Many thanks to:

  My editor, Elizabeth London Editing

  My beta, Underline This Editing

  My proofreader, Paige Maroney Smith

  My sensitivity readers, Chayo Ramón and Maria D.

  My release PA, Serena McDonald

  Cover Designed by Najla Qamber Designs

  Cover Photographed by Perrywinkle Photography

  About the Author

  Jessica Hawkins is a USA Today bestselling author known for her “emotionally gripping” and “off-the-charts hot” romance. Dubbed “queen of angst” by both peers and readers for her smart and provocative work, she’s garnered a cult-like following of fans who love to be torn apart…and put back together.

  She writes romance both at home in New York and around the world, a coffee shop traveler who bounces from café to café with just a laptop, headphones, and a coffee cup. She loves to keep in close touch with her readers, mostly via Facebook, Instagram, and her mailing list.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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