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“Lexi Blake's MASTERS AND MERCENARIES series is beautifully written and deliciously hot. She's got a real way with both action and sex. I also love the way Blake writes her gorgeous Dom heroes--they make me want to do bad, bad things. Her heroines are intelligent and gutsy ladies whose taste for submission definitely does not make them dish rags. Can't wait for the next book!”
~Angela Knight, New York Times Bestselling author
“A Dom is Forever is action packed, both in the bedroom and out. Expect agents, spies, guns, killing and lots of kink as Liam goes after the mysterious Mr. Black and finds his past and his future… The action and espionage keep this story moving along quickly while the sex and kink provides a totally different type of interest. Everything is very well balanced and flows together wonderfully.”
~A Night Owl “Top Pick”, Terri, Night Owl Erotica
“A Dom Is Forever is everything that is good in erotic romance. The story was fast-paced and suspenseful, the characters were flawed but made me root for them every step of the way, and the hotness factor was off the charts mostly due to a bad boy Dom with a penchant for dirty talk.”
~Rho, The Romance Reviews
“A good read that kept me on my toes, guessing until the big reveal, and thinking survival skills should be a must for all men.”
~Chris, Night Owl Reviews
“I can’t get enough of the Masters and Mercenaries Series! Love and Let Die is Lexi Blake at her best! She writes erotic romantic suspense like no other, and I am always extremely excited when she has something new for us! Intense, heart pounding, and erotically fulfilling, I could not put this book down.”
~ Shayna Renee, Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads
“Certain authors and series are on my auto-buy list. Lexi Blake and her Masters & Mercenaries series is at the top of that list... this book offered everything I love about a Masters & Mercenaries book – alpha men, hot sex and sweet loving… As long as Ms. Blake continues to offer such high quality books, I’ll be right there, ready to read.”
~ Robin, Sizzling Hot Books
“I have absolutely fallen in love with this series. Spies, espionage, and intrigue all packaged up in a hot dominant male package. All the men at McKay-Taggart are smoking hot and the women are amazingly strong sexy submissives.”
~Kelley, Smut Book Junkie Book Reviews
Nobody Does It Better
Masters and Mercenaries, Book 15
Lexi Blake
Nobody Does It Better
Masters and Mercenaries, Book 15
Published by DLZ Entertainment LLC
Copyright 2018 DLZ Entertainment LLC
Edited by Chloe Vale
ISBN: 978-1-937608-67-5
McKay-Taggart logo design by Charity Hendry
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.
This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental.
About Lexi Blake
Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places. Lexi believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome or foursome may seem. She also writes contemporary Western ménage as Sophie Oak.
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Other Books By Lexi Blake
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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Masters and Mercenaries
The Dom Who Loved Me
The Men With The Golden Cuffs
A Dom is Forever
On Her Master’s Secret Service
Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
Love and Let Die
Unconditional: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
Dungeon Royale
Dungeon Games: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
A View to a Thrill
Cherished: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
You Only Love Twice
Luscious: Masters and Mercenaries~Topped
Adored: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
Master No
Just One Taste: Masters and Mercenaries~Topped 2
From Sanctum with Love
Devoted: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
Dominance Never Dies
Submission is Not Enough
Master Bits and Mercenary Bites~The Secret Recipes of Topped
Perfectly Paired: Masters and Mercenaries~Topped 3
For His Eyes Only
Arranged: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
Love Another Day
At Your Service: Masters and Mercenaries~Topped 4
Master Bits and Mercenary Bites~Girls Night
Nobody Does It Better
Close Cover, Coming April 10, 2018
Protected, Coming July 31, 2018
Lawless
Ruthless
Satisfaction
Revenge
Courting Justice
Order of Protection, Coming June 5, 2018
Masters Of Ménage (by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake)
Their Virgin Captive
Their Virgin’s Secret
Their Virgin Concubine
Their Virgin Princess
Their Virgin Hostage
Their Virgin Secretary
Their Virgin Mistress
The Perfect Gentlemen (by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake)
Scandal Never Sleeps
Seduction in Session
Big Easy Temptation
Smoke and Sin
At the Pleasure of the President, Coming Fall 2018
URBAN FANTASY
Thieves
Steal the Light
Steal the Day
Steal the Moon
Steal the Sun
Steal the Night
Ripper
Addict
Sleeper
Outcast, Coming 2018
LEXI BLAKE WRITING AS SOPHIE OAK
Small Town Siren
Siren in the City
Away From Me
Three to Ride, Coming March 2018
Siren Enslaved, Coming Spring 2018
Acknowledgments
It’s hard to believe this is the fifteenth main storyline Masters and Mercenaries book. It’s also the final book of this particular version of the team. Don’t worry. They’ll be back. First as a spinoff, and then we’ll time jump and see where they are years down the road, but this still feels a little like good-bye. The world is changing, but I’m excited about what’s ahead.
So this is a great time to say thank you to some people who have been with me over the years. To my husband who lives and breathes Ian Taggart. You make it easy to write his dialogue. I just wait for you to open your mouth. To my sister from another mister, Kim Guidroz, who was there when I first th
ought “hey, let’s do a sexy James Bond thriller where old JB falls in love for reals.” To Shayla Black, without whom the team would look very different. To Liz Berry, champion of authors and never-ending cheerleader. To my kids, who deal every day with the fact that mommy’s writing and figure out how to get their own lunch. (But dinner’s always on me, kiddos.) Thanks to my team—Danielle at Inkslinger, Jillian Stein, Stormy Pate, Riane Holt, Margarita Coale, and my agent, Kevan Lyon. Special thanks to Kori Smith and Sara Buell who spent days exploring the wilds of Malibu with me.
And thanks to Larissa Ione, Carly Phillips, and J Kenner for creating such amazing bodyguards and letting them hire on at McKay-Taggart! I hope I did Declan, Shane, and Riley justice, my friends.
But this book is dedicated to my mother and father, who taught me to love and to hold on to that love even when it feels like all is lost…
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Table of Contents
About Lexi Blake
Other Books by Lexi Blake
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Epilogue
An excerpt from Close Cover by Lexi Blake
The Lexi Blake Crossover Collection
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Prologue
Phuket, Thailand
Kayla Summers walked into the gorgeous lobby and tried not to think about how badly her hands were shaking. To her right she could hear the sound of the ocean, most times a deep comfort to her, but today not even that rolling, endless symphony could soothe her.
Of course it wasn’t every day she did spy stuff. She’d trained for this day, long hard hours that would leave her wondering why the hell she’d signed up for this gig when she could be playing beer pong and rushing a sorority.
“Hey, it’s all right,” the man with the slow Southern accent said under his breath. He walked beside her, had been beside her from the moment she’d left DC. “This is nothing at all, Kay. We’re walking into the hotel, picking up your sister, and then you’ll walk one way with Mr. Bishop and I’ll walk the other with Kun. We’ll meet up at the extraction point and you’ll both be back in the States by this time tomorrow.”
“Are you going to arrest her?” She’d been wondering about that, wondering if this whole save-the-twin-I-didn’t-know-I-had plan was truly about sending her long-lost sister to Guantanamo Bay. Though with some of the stories she’d heard about MSS, China’s version of the CIA, being tortured in Cuba might be a fun vacay for her sis.
Sister. She had a sister. Jiang Kun.
Thank god her fathers had insisted she know something of the culture she’d been born into. One of her dad’s taught Mandarin at UC Santa Barbara and she’d grown up speaking it around the house. His Cantonese was excellent as well. Despite the fact that there was not a drop of DNA between them, they always joked that she’d gotten Dad’s ear for languages.
If only her sister had been as fortunate.
Tennessee Smith stopped in the middle of the elegant hotel lobby, his long, lean frame looking down on her. “I told you. Once your sister is in the States, she’ll be debriefed. That debrief will likely last a good long time, but she’s going to be treated as an asset, not an enemy. Jiang Kun was accepted into a program to train MSS operatives when she was sixteen years old. And by accepted, I mean she was selected by the government and there was no way to say no. You know that training you’ve done over the last few months? That was a tiny taste of what your sister has been through the last several years. And I assure you, the CIA is kinder with our agents than MSS.”
After she’d been contacted by the Agency, she’d spent three months in a program meant to give her basic training. What she really thought they’d wanted to do was maintain control over all communications with her sister.
Still, it had been a rough couple of months. Physical training. Firearms training. Learning the ins and outs of procedure, and all for one operation. This one.
The funny thing was, while it had been rough, she’d kind of liked it. She’d liked having purpose. Despite the fact the she was flying through her undergraduate degree at Stanford, she often felt aimless. The last few months had been a revelation. Something had come over her. A sense of true purpose.
What the hell was she going to do when this was over? She’d gotten used to being around Ten and even the super-cold dude. John Bishop. She’d made him smile once. All the other recruits in her class had gotten together and made her a trophy for that because the guy wasn’t known for his humor.
Still, he’d taken an interest in her and she would oddly miss him.
“I’m just worried about her.” And worried that once Kun was in the US, she wouldn’t need Kayla anymore.
Would they even have a relationship? Or would her sister disappear into the Agency while the Agency said “thanks and see ya later” to Kayla?
She thought briefly about the mother who’d given birth to her. How hard had it been? She’d known she was having twins, known given China’s one child policy at the time that one of them would be taken or aborted. Everything she’d done had been in secrecy and she’d managed to have Kayla smuggled out of the country. By some grace, she’d wound up in an orphanage that dealt with foreign adoptions, and by the time she was six months old, she was the darling daughter of Fred Summers and Jim Gayle.
According to her sister, their mother had passed away a few months after Kun had gone into training.
Ten put a hand on her shoulder. “Don’t be worried about her. She’s made a great decision and she’s going to be rewarded for it. And honestly, if you want to stay in training to be close to her, I’ll approve it.”
“Seriously?” She wasn’t going to say it, but she’d been upset at the thought of not going back to those classes.
His lips quirked up. “Seriously. I actually think you would make an excellent agent, and Bishop agrees. I think he’s got it in his mind that having a set of twin operatives could be interesting. If you choose to stay, you’ll work under Bishop, though I’ll be around. I’ve got a new guy I’m handling. Bishop found him but thought I would be better dealing with him. Now I know why. The guy’s phenomenal. I’ve never seen anyone with his skills. Or his damn mouth. If I don’t kill Ian Taggart, he’ll be a hell of an operative. He’s already tangled with your sister once. It should be interesting to see them work together.”
She could be working with her sister, too. Working for the Agency. Working for the good of her country. Yeah, that might be cool. “I would love to stay on.”
His shoulders straightened. “Then let’s get your sister and get this party started.”
She walked taller, barely glancing over at the ocean she could see through the open lobby.
Up ahead she saw something she couldn’t ignore. John Bishop peeled away from the shadows. While most people felt fairly comfortable with Tennessee Smith, John Bishop was a different proposition. He was cold, calculating. Ten might be as well, but he hid it under
that lazy, aw-shucks gorgeous exterior of his. There was a reason they called John Bishop the Ice Man.
Everyone in her class thought she was insane when she told them she could see another man under his chilly exterior. If he ever found the right woman, she knew he would warm up.
Roughly six feet tall, Bishop was blandly handsome, the type of handsome that was hard to describe, and she was certain that worked for him. When she wasn’t studying him, her eyes sort of glanced off him like they would almost any person simply walking along the street.
But when she caught his eyes, she saw something stark and eerie there. Bishop was a man who had seen far too much and might never come back from it. He would stand in the shadows because they were his home until the right woman reached her hand out and pulled him into the sun.
She might have been reading too many romance novels.
“Have you talked to our girl?” Bishop asked. He glanced Kayla’s way and gave her a nod.
Ten’s head shook in the negative. “Not since last night when she checked in. The meetup is through here. This handoff is going down in one of the bungalows. It’s off the main property so we should be away from prying eyes. She said she checked it for bugs and it was clean.”
“Won’t MSS be looking for her?” Kayla asked. This was happening. Her first op.
Bishop turned and frowned her way. “I need you to keep your voice down.”
“I’m sorry. We’re alone.” It wasn’t like she hadn’t looked around.
“Lesson number one, Kay. We’re never alone,” Bishop replied. “Never.”
“Even if they look for her, she’s exactly where she’s supposed to be,” Ten said quietly as they moved to the path. All around her was lush beauty, but she couldn’t seem to enjoy any of it. “She’s meeting an informant here at midnight tonight. She’s alone and not expected to report back to base for a few days. She’ll be halfway to the States by then.”