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Authors: Gabra Zackman
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JACKSON EXITED THE BASEMENT,
tossing the bucket of meatballs back into the kitchen. It was time for him to make his move. They were ready. It was a moment of triumph. And he and the woman he had his eye on could celebrate together. He was just making his way over to Lisa Bee when he heard his phone’s text message notification, a riff from the song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from the movie
Hustle & Flow
. He looked at his phone and saw it was a message from Mahmoud. As he opened it, his breath caught when he saw the single word:
Casablanca
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SUSANNAH AND CHAS
wound up back in the town house a few hours later, exhausted from the day’s events but exhiliarated at the new possibilities that lay ahead. Susannah had shown Chas what she and Fingers had discovered: the painting, the safe, and the secret key.
“Why did you take the family tree after you drugged me?” he asked. She was sitting on his lap on his office chair, and he was playing with the tree that was still around her neck.
Susannah smiled, and kissed him, lingering on the softness of his lips, and loving the hardness that pressed against her thigh. “Well, I just figured . . .” She kissed him again. “There’s always hope, right?”
“But then I almost broke your cover,” he said, kissing her again. “And that would have ruined all of it. I called you a whore, which made me nauseous by the way. Worse than that was calling you a joke—sweetheart, you are anything but.”
“That’s okay, Chas,” she said, nipping him on the nose. “I liked how angry it made me. I got a whole lot of self-confidence out of that kick in the ass. And as it turns out, Gabriella took good care of me.”
“I’m glad. It is an awesome cover you can use in the future. But just so you know—I did have a backup plan.”
“Hmm,” she murmured, going in for yet another kiss, “do tell.”
“Well,” he said, “I figured if you couldn’t keep the name Carter, that maybe you could change it to Palmer.”
She stopped kissing him and looked him straight in the eye, ready for a challenge. “Are you making me an offer, Tex?”
He quirked a grin. “What if I was?”
“Well, cowboy,” she said, sliding off his lap and moving toward the door, “if you want to get me, you’re gonna have to win me.”
“Meaning?” he asked, standing at attention with a gleam in his eye.
“Follow me to the bedroom, and meet me ‘undercover,’ ” she said, biting her lower lip. “That is, unless you think life gets easy now that you’ve closed a case.”
“Oh, I may be cheap,” he said, smiling, “but I’m never easy. And with you by my side, Legs, I bet it’ll be one heck of an interesting life.”
Their eyes connected and they both silently agreed. Yup. It was going to be one heck of an interesting life. And they were both ready for it to begin.
“Well, then,” Susannah breathed. “Game on.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debut author and actor Gabra Zackman knows romance.
Game On
was inspired by the more than 100 romance and women’s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. Zackman divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.
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