Lana Meza
Lana Meza
I stood in the dim light of his workshop, watching Paula’s broad, tattooed hands trace the cold steel of a newly armored chassis. Every line of his body hummed with raw power, the dark, dangerous energy that always made my pulse race and my skin burn. He turned, dark eyes locking onto mine with an intensity that pulled the air straight from my lungs. "You shouldn't be down here, Lyra," he murmured, his voice a low, rough rasp that sent heat curling straight down my spine. He closed the distance between us, backing me against the cold metal workbench. His hands gripped my hips, lifting me effortlessly, his mouth crashing onto mine in a feverish, heavy kiss that tasted like dark sin and promises. My fingers buried into his hair, pulling him closer as the heavy heat between us flared out of control, consuming every inch of my restraint. Then his phone buzzed in his pocket. A soft, rhythmic hum. He froze. The fire in his eyes instantly snuffed into cold distance. He didn't answer it, but his fingers slipped from my waist, his attention already miles away with the ghost who owned his soul. She fixed his empire. He shattered her heart. Read Infidelity Among the Outlaws today—before his secrets burn them both alive.
He lied. He pressed me against the polished mahogany desk of the Aegis Vipers boardroom, his heavy hands gripping my hips, his breath hot and ragged against my neck. Every kiss was a desperate, feverish command—a master strategist trying to possess the queen he had broken. "Look at me, Clara," Jaxxon growled, his mouth trailing down my collarbone, setting my skin ablaze with a cruel, familiar friction. His body rolled against mine in a rhythmic, agonizing rhythm, demanding the surrender I used to yield so freely. "You’re still mine. Tell me you’re mine." I didn't blink. I didn't tremble. I let his heat consume me, let his hips drive us both to the edge of absolute ruin, but when he leaned in to claim my lips, I met his dark eyes with ice. "You can touch my body, Jax," I whispered, my voice chillingly soft as his grip tightened in desperation. "But you sold my heart to the federal wire. And you'll never buy it back." He built an empire to protect her. He betrayed her to save it. Now, to keep her, he must burn it all to the ground—or lose her forever. Grab your copy today.
I came back to the Revenge Clubhouse with a secret on my hip and one goal—make Truett Ruiz regret ever breaking me. Five years ago, my husband chose his motorcycle club over our vows. He cheated. He humiliated me. And when I confronted him, he looked me in the eyes and said, “Leave tonight.” So I disappeared. What he never knew was that I left carrying his child. Now I’m back, and our daughter is almost five. Truett is still dangerously handsome, painfully controlled, and wearing the wedding ring he never removed. Worse, one look from him still makes heat gather beneath my skin, still reminds me how his mouth once knew every secret I refused to say aloud. “I still want you,” I whisper. His gaze drops to my lips. “But you don’t trust me.” “No.” His voice turns rough. “Then wanting me isn’t enough.” He says he’ll surrender his money, his club, his name—anything to prove he has changed. But someone inside the clubhouse already knows about our daughter. Someone wants her bloodline. Someone wants me dead. And this time, Truett may have to choose between saving me… or betraying me again. Would you trust the man who destroyed you with your life twice?
I sold myself to the most feared Alpha King alive, planning to steal from him before he ever discovered what I truly was. Leo Holt was supposed to be my enemy. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. Instead, he cornered me against his bedroom door, his steel-grey eyes burning into mine. “Tell me to stop, Lyra.” My pulse betrayed me. “I should.” “That wasn’t what I asked.” One forbidden night destroyed every rule I had left. But my mother was dying, and the ancient Solstice Heart hidden beneath Leo’s fortress could save her. So I stole it, shattered the man who had begun trusting me, and disappeared. Three weeks later, I discovered I was carrying his child. For two years, I kept our son hidden from the Alpha King whose blood carried a deadly curse. Until Leo found us. Until our little boy looked straight at him and whispered, “Dada.” Now I’m trapped beside the man I betrayed, fighting enemies who want our child, resisting a bond that still burns, and watching a once-cruel King crawl through hell to earn me back. He says I’m his greatest mistake. I’m afraid loving him may become mine. Open this book carefully. Some monsters don’t chase you. They make you beg to stay.
I found my husband’s third phone beside another woman’s blouse. That was the night my twenty-year marriage stopped feeling safe. Jake Vang was the feared President of the Phantom Syndicate, the man who swore he would burn the world before letting anyone hurt me. I believed him. Until I discovered he was the one holding the match. His affair with Heaven Shelton was supposed to be “club business.” One calculated kiss for information. One dangerous woman he claimed meant nothing. Except the mission ended. Jake kept going back. When I finally confronted him, his voice dropped low enough to make my skin remember every night we had ever shared. “Tell me you don’t want me anymore.” I hated him for asking. I hated myself because I couldn’t. But desire is not forgiveness, and a man who knows exactly how to make his wife tremble can still be the man who broke her trust. Now I’m building a life without his name, while Jake gives up his presidency, his power, and nearly his life trying to become someone worthy of standing beside me again. Then the woman he cheated with calls me. And what she reveals proves the affair was only the beginning. Open this book carefully. Because somebody is about to lose everything.
HE DESTROYED HER NAME TO SAVE HIS. SHE BOUGHT THE TEAM THAT COULD END HIM.Jose Erickson has everything a man could want: NHL superstardom, a fifty-million-dollar contract within reach, and a fiercely loyal wife who has protected his darkest secret for ten years. But when that secret threatens to surface, Jose makes the one decision Alina Cannon may never forgive. He approves a ruthless media campaign that paints her as an adulteress, lets millions believe she betrayed their marriage, and watches silently while her reputation burns. Then he makes it worse. He cheats. Jose expects anger, lawyers, and eventually a private reconciliation. He does not expect Alina to walk into a televised press conference and reveal herself as the controlling owner of the Boston Sabres, his team’s fiercest rival. Suddenly, the wife he underestimated is sitting in the owner’s box while his career collapses beneath him. As fabricated affair evidence begins falling apart, reporters uncover suspicious connections between Jose’s management, a hidden betting empire, and the secret financial ledger Alina once promised never to use against him. Jose loses his captaincy, his contract, his marriage, and eventually his place in New York. Yet the cruelest punishment is watching Alina keep the one promise that could destroy him while knowing he broke nearly every promise he made to her. Months later, Jose returns to professional hockey at league minimum salary, wearing Boston colors beneath Alina’s ownership. An elevator traps them alone. A hospital room exposes wounds neither has healed. Game Seven forces Jose to choose between becoming the hero again or finally becoming the man Alina once believed he was. But redemption cannot erase betrayal. And wanting his wife back does not mean Jose deserves her. For readers who crave devastating marriage angst, genuine infidelity consequences, powerful heroines, brutal groveling, NHL rivalry, second chances, and love that must be rebuilt rather than simply forgiven, Angsty Ice delivers the emotional wreckage you came for. Step onto the ice and discover whether the marriage Jose destroyed can survive the man he becomes afterward.
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