Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Lady Leo Publishing
ISBN-10: 0976355469
Type: Fiction
Pages: 40
Copyright: Jan 15, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780976355465
When Meesha Covington almost loses her fiancé, Detective Taylor Ross, during an undercover operation, she ends their engagement. Meesha is free and looking for a different type of man in her life. A man laid back, low key, and works a normal nine-to-five. She believes she may have found the man of her dreams when Attorney Lorenzo walks into her life.
Lorenzo is handsome, intelligent, loving, and successful. He fulfills all of her mental and physical needs. Meesha is looking forward to moving on with her life but Taylor sudden reappearance may throw a monkey wrench in her plans. He’s back and asking questions about her new lover. Is he jealous? Or is there more to Lorenzo that meets the eye?
Excerpt
Meesha Covington spotted him the moment he entered Belle’s. Her heart skipped a beat as it always did since he began coming into the diner a month ago.
She watched, fascinated by the way the five foot eleven inches tall, brown-skinned, medium built, well dressed man in a tailored suit moved with ease. He wasn’t part of the usual crowd that came into Belle’s. There was a confidence about him that set off her sexual meter. At the moment it was registering off the charts. He must have known she was looking--he turned, flashing her a smile. She felt warm from head to toe.
The place was busy. Every booth was occupied and there were no vacancies at the counter. Many of the customers who frequented Belle’s were regulars who enjoyed Soul Food. The atmosphere allowed them to unwind and enjoy a good meal with the family, with someone special, or by themselves if they preferred.
He always came in alone, always sat in her station, and always ordered the special. He didn’t speak but always left a generous tip. The most important thing she noticed was that he wasn’t wearing a wedding ring.
It had been two years since she’d been with a man, since her engagement had ended with Taylor Ross.
Taylor was a Detective with the narcotics division of the local police department. It was always her worst fear that she’d receive a phone call, telling her that he had been shot or worse.
She remembered the day vividly. She was at her parents when she received the call that he was in the Intensive Care Unit. He’d been shot in the chest during an undercover drug investigation with a drug Kingpin, Chamber Lawson. The bullet narrowly missed his heart.
He’d been obsessed with bringing down Chamber Lawson, a major drug dealer in the southeast area of Washington, DC. The same neighborhood he was raised in. He’d been investigating a drug connection in the local high school where his younger brother, Juan, had been found dead from a drug overdose, several months earlier. The star of the basketball team, Juan had been accepted to a prestigious university on a basketball scholarship. His dream had been to play in the NBA.
She had arrived at the Washington Hospital Center to find him fighting for his life. He looked helpless. The doctor didn’t believe he would make it through the night. Meesha and family members staged a prayer vigil by his bedside, day and night. A couple of days later, he opened his eyes. She’d almost lost him and never wanted to feel that type of fear again. Her peace of mind was short lived.
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