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Baby for an Outlaw: Marino Crime Family, #3
Baby for an Outlaw: Marino Crime Family, #3
Baby for an Outlaw: Marino Crime Family, #3
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Baby for an Outlaw: Marino Crime Family, #3

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Baby for an Outlaw is book 3 and the finale of the Marino Crime Family trilogy!

I WANTED HER TO GIVE ME A BABY. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT WOULD COST ME EVERYTHING.

And I didn't know it would require me to kill…
One last time.


I was ready to hang up my weapons and get out of the killing game for good.
But I guess that just wasn't meant to be.

I did what I had to when I killed the men who hurt her.
Too bad the demons in my past are determined to punish me for that.
Because the Marino crime family don't take lightly to losing some of their own.
And they intend to make me pay in the worst way possible:

By taking her away from me.

If I want us to survive this nightmare, I'll have to do what I've done my whole life:
Load up my gun and make some m***erf**kers bleed.

Maybe the blood on my hands would be there forever.
Maybe touching her afterwards would ruin her perfect innocence.
But maybe, just maybe, if I did everything right…
I could get her out of this the way I wanted her:

Flawless.
Pregnant.
And mine.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 27, 2018
ISBN9781386087397
Baby for an Outlaw: Marino Crime Family, #3

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    BABY FOR AN OUTLAW: Marino Crime Family (Book 3)

    By Kathryn Thomas

    I WANTED HER TO GIVE ME A BABY. I JUST DIDN’T KNOW IT WOULD COST ME EVERYTHING.

    AND I DIDN’T KNOW IT would require me to kill...

    One last time.

    I was ready to hang up my weapons and get out of the killing game for good.

    But I guess that just wasn’t meant to be.

    I did what I had to when I killed the men who hurt her.

    Too bad the demons in my past are determined to punish me for that.

    Because the Marino crime family don’t take lightly to losing some of their own.

    And they intend to make me pay in the worst way possible:

    By taking her away from me.

    If I want us to survive this nightmare, I’ll have to do what I’ve done my whole life:

    Load up my gun and make some m***erf**kers bleed.

    Maybe the blood on my hands would be there forever.

    Maybe touching her afterwards would ruin her perfect innocence.

    But maybe, just maybe, if I did everything right...

    I could get her out of this the way I wanted her:

    Flawless.

    Pregnant.

    And mine.

    Chapter 1

    Iwas surprised at how easily Sabrina’s friend said yes to coming along. I mean, if she even knew a quarter of the truth, wouldn’t she be scared off? I couldn’t imagine any other plain old citizen who wouldn’t balk at the idea of hiding out in a potentially deadly situation just because her friend was in it too. But then, if she was a friend of Sabrina’s, she probably wasn’t too different from her, and from that, I could assume that she was brave, headstrong, and completely level-headed.

    Lily hadn’t asked me any questions as we’d made our way back from the city - she was probably saving them all up for when she could get Sabrina alone. I wanted everything Lily heard to come from her, not me. After all, it was Sabrina who was bringing her into this situation, and it was her responsibility to let her know what was going on. As we made our way back to the house, however, I snuck a look at her out of the corner of my eye, and I could have sworn that she looked a little excited. There was that glint of a thrill in her eye, and I occasionally caught her sneaking a look at me. I wondered if she knew what I was, what I did, if Sabrina had told her, and whether she’d be as calm as she was if she had. I drove quickly, knowing that I didn’t have a whole lot of time before Leo would expect the hit to be complete. I didn’t want to end up late because I was playing taxi to one of Sabrina’s friends as that’s how questions would start to get asked and then I was probably fucked.

    I couldn’t get what Leo had said that morning out of my head. I just couldn’t. I knew it was likely nothing more than bravado. Hell, I was almost certain that was what it was. But fucking Christ, he knew how to get me feeling on edge. I wanted to throw up when I considered the thought of him knowing about everything that was going on. If he found out about Sabrina and me, we were both dead, along with anyone else who got involved. That included her friend Lily, maybe her family, and definitely anyone working at her restaurant. A wave of panic hit me, and I did my best to quell it. I needed to keep myself pulled together for this - Leo had texted me a location, and the last thing I wanted was to draw attention to myself once I was there.

    I was also a little panicked about the thought of pulling a trigger on someone again. Not worried about getting caught or screwing it up - I knew all my instincts were still in place, and there was no reason to think that I had lost my touch over the years. But the thought of killing someone for cash again, carrying out a hit shrouded by darkness in the middle of the night... it was unsettling, to say the least. Last time, I had been able to decant the job onto Saffron and avoid actually committing a murder, but there would be no getting around it tonight. I had to do this. I had to kill someone. Someone who, from what Leo had told me, was a lot like me. I shivered as I wondered how close I had come to being in his position, how close I would come again.

    But he was like me - he had killed before, and he knew this was a danger that came with the job. He knew that if he fucked up, he was in for the chop. Just as I had done, just as we all did. I wondered what his motive was for working with Leo on the inside - undercover cop, maybe, or a private detective for some grieving family trying to figure out why their beloved member had been dealt with? I guessed I would never know. I could ask Leo, but that would probably just arouse his suspicions even further, and that was the last thing I wanted. I needed to slide firmly under the radar for the foreseeable future and hope that he didn’t pay too much attention to me. The beach house would help with that, of course, but I needed to be the best hitman he ever worked with to prove that I truly was on his side. And that meant killing again, no matter how much the thought of it struck fear into my soul.

    I felt as though I had spent the last few years recuperating from the horror of everything that I’d done in my line of work. I had put time and effort into rebuilding what little was left of my compassion and decency. Hell, Sabrina alone proved that. There was no way I would have intervened with what was happening and then gone on to check on her afterward back in the day - and here I was, potentially about to throw it all away in order to keep my cover. It was for a worthy cause, but did that matter? Would I find myself slipping back into the person I used to be, the person I had tried my hardest to distance myself from in the last few years? I thought about the barrage of weapons in the back of the car and wondered which one I’d use. Whichever one gave me the most distance - whichever one meant that I didn’t have to look at the body, to see what I’d done to this man who was really no different from me.

    I pulled the car to a stop, and before long spotted another vehicle parked up just across from me. I peered over to see if anyone was inside. It seemed odd and out of place here, considering how remote and out-of-the-way this alley was. I could see someone else inside - not only that, but he was looking back at me. I tensed immediately, wishing I had one of my guns in the glove box, and feeling in my pocket for the flick knife I kept in there at all times. I wrapped my fingers around it as a tall man I didn’t recognize got out of the car and swept over to mine in a few long strides. He knocked on the window, and I rolled it down carefully.

    You with Leo? the man asked bluntly, and I managed a nod, relief flooding my system.

    I’m with Leo, I agreed, releasing the knife and holding out my hand. We shook through the window.

    I’m Anthony.

    Taylor, he shot back distractedly. Can I get in?

    Sure. I unlocked the door for the passenger side, and he slid in next to me. He glanced over in my direction, and

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