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“Scorching, wrenching, suspenseful.”
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—Publishers Weekly
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Hot in Handcuffs
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sylvia day
shiloh walker
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Berkley Sensation trade paperback edition / July 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Black, Shayla.
Hot in handcuffs / Shayla Black, Sylvia Day, Shiloh Walker.—Berkley
Sensation trade paperback ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-101-56895-8
I. Day, Sylvia. II. Walker, Shiloh. III. Title.
PS3602.L325245H68 2012
813’.6—dc23
2012012365
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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ALWAYS LEARNING
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CONTENTS
Arresting Desire
shayla black
On Fire
sylvia day
The Unwilling
shiloh walker
Arresting Desire
shayla black
For my parents. You’re not big readers, and you’re very practical, so the
creative process is a bit of a head-scratcher for you. Thank you for not freaking
out when I left my safe, comfortable day job and for realizing this “whole book
writing thing” really makes me happy. While I don’t use my very expensive
education in the way you anticipated, I know it’s contributed to my success and
my life. Your love and support mean a lot.
chapter one
He stood at the back of the smoky club and watched with a grimace as four
mostly naked men danced around the sitting redhead he hadn’t quite forgotten in
the last two years. A bawdy song about loosening up some girl’s buttons
throbbed over the speakers in the background.
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Blade Bocelli,” a familiar voice drawled.
He turned to find Nicki Sullivan wearing a red lacy corset, a tight leather skirt,
and five-inch fuck-me pumps—along with a huge, glittering wedding ring. She
leaned against the club’s back wall, giving him a teasing smile.
“You know my name is Jon.” He grimaced. “Drop the cheesy Blade, huh? My
days undercover with the Mafia, posing as your Uncle Pietro’s right-hand bitch,
are done.”
“You clean up nice in Armani. Guess the FBI prefers its agents in suits.” Nicki
looked up and down with a grin. “But you looked good in leather.”
Jon didn’t give a shit what she thought. “You share that view with your
husband?”
“I said you looked good. I didn’t say I wanted to fuck you. Mark is the only
one, and he knows it.” She crossed her arms over her chest. “You’re a long way
from Jersey. What brings you back to Vegas?”
“I need to talk to you, and like I said over the phone, I didn’t want any
potential for being overheard.” He glanced at the stage again, holding in a curse
when one of the male dancers gyrated his junk in the pretty redhead’s face.
When she giggled, Jon clenched a fist.
“Something wrong?” Nicki asked, all innocence.
“You didn’t tell me your sister would be here.”
She shrugged. “You didn’t ask.”
No, but he’d wanted to. Lucia DiStefano was everything he had no business
wanting and embodied nearly every fantasy he’d ever had. She wasn’t tall or
stick-thin. She wasn’t a man-eater who knew twenty ways to get off in three
minutes. She was highly intelligent, more National Geographic than Vogue. Jon
had itched to awaken the sensual woman under Lucia’s polished surface the
