After a night of raw passion with the man Claire O’Briene had been secretly admiring for years, she thought their time together had come once and for all. Fate had finally brought them back to each other, but unfortunately nothing had changed. He was still the same man who ran away from relationships. Against his better judgment, Mason Bradley gave in to the temptation and allowed himself one night with the one woman he’d been too afraid to want … too afraid to need.
Six months after leaving Claire and regretting every minute of it, Mason gets called in for an undercover mission that’s not only dangerous, but brings back a past he spent years trying to forget. A past of fighting … of getting in the ring and using his fists to get what he wanted: money, women, and drugs. Now there are fighters turning up dead, and it’s Mason’s job to find out the truth.
Knowing
he might not come out of the mission alive, Mason seeks out Claire to
tell her how he truly feels, only to find another man competing for her
love as well. Fighting is what he’s good at, and for once he will be
fighting not only for justice … but for love.
The
door to the arena room was open, and the moment we stepped in Claire
gasped and I stared, wide-eyed at all the people. "Holy shit," I
breathed in awe. "It's packed."
Every single chair around the cage was occupied and there were people
standing around everywhere. There were two guys already in the cage
battling it out, except they looked to be part of the Lightweight
division. When I fought several years ago, I was competing for the
Heavyweight title. If they did fights in order of division then I would
be going up there last."Hey, guys," Tyler exclaimed, carrying a beer in
his hands.
Disapprovingly, I glared at the beer and then back up to him. "You
should know better than to get drunk before a fight. It makes you
sloppy," I scolded him.
I really didn't care either way what he did, but I knew better than to
drink when I had to compete. Tyler chugged his beer and threw his cup in
the trash a little too roughly.
"I do know better than to drink when I have to fight, but unfortunately, I'm not fighting tonight," he announced.
"Wait, what?" Claire cut in. "What do you mean you're not fighting? If you're not the one fighting Mason then who is?"
Tyler glanced around the room with narrowed eyes until he found the
person I was to fight and pointed to him. "That's the guy over there
with the blue mohawk. I think you might know him. He said he owed you
for something you did a long time ago. Care to explain," Tyler inquired
curiously.
Following the direction of Ty's pointed finger, I groaned when I saw the guy with the blue mohawk. Fuck, I knew who he was, or better yet, I knew his wife ... very well.
"What is it Mason?" Claire asked worriedly. "Who is he?"
His name was Chase Benfield and I did the unthinkable by fucking his
wife. Blowing out a frustrated breath, I lowered my head and began to
explain, "Do you remember when I mentioned I had a dark past?"
"Yeah," she said, drawling out the word. "Let me guess, you fought him back in the day?"
I nodded. "Yes, but that wasn't just it." I didn't want to tell her
what I did because I was ashamed of the way I acted and the way I did
things. I was sure she would understand, hopefully, but I didn't want
her thinking less of me.
Claire let go of my hand and crossed her arms over her chest defiantly.
"Dammit, just tell me already. You did this same shit to me when I was
keeping something from you."
"Fine," I gave in, "but I need you to know it was a long time ago and
it was before I even met you. I was stupid and did lots of stupid things
that I shouldn't have."
She rolled her eyes. "Let me guess, you slept with his girlfriend," she guessed blandly.
Sighing, I regretfully nodded my head and waited for the angry words to
come spewing out of her mouth. Instead, she said, "So, what's the big
deal? You slept with her. That shit happens all the time. Why would he
be angry about that still?"
"Well," I began, "it was actually his wife and I hooked up with her in
my prepping room during his fight for a spot at the Heavyweight title.
His trainer had come looking for her and found us. Needless to say, word
got back to Chase awfully fast."
Claire groaned and hung her head. "Oh, hell, this isn't going to be good."
Chase finally spotted me from across the room and snarled his lip. No, I thought to myself, this definitely wasn't going to be good.
o having read her two other books back to back so I could review this one, I have to say this book was probably my favorite of the series! I loved Claire and Mason and was super happy that this story had dual POV's. Meant for Me starts off with a heartbreaking scene of Mason dropping Claire off at the airport after Melissa and Brett's wedding. After a night of passion between the two, Mason knows that what he is about to do is going to be one of his biggest regrets of his life but with his current job, a relationship with Claire wouldn't be ideal. So he breaks both their hearts and lets her go. Fast forward a couple months and we see that Claire has moved on to a man named Cooper. She hasn't heard or talked to Mason since that day months ago, but you can tell it still affects her; she just can't seem to give her all to Cooper. Having doubts she confides in Melissa, who tells her that it might be time to move on so she does. But of course Mason comes back to try to talk to her and see Melissa before he takes another undercover job that could very well be his last. When Mason tries to talk to Claire she isn't having any of it, so he writes her a letter letting her know how he feels. Claire now has a choice, follow her heart and go after Mason or play is safe and stay with Cooper. She follows her heart and Mason to the sin city itself: Las Vegas. Mason, with the help of Claire and her past dives into the undercover role he needs, but with life changing events that neither of them expected. I’ll let you read the rest of the story to find out what happens but I will say to brace yourself because this story will have you at the edge of your seat, turning the pages to find out what happens next. I can't wait to read the next one. This series is one that seems to get better and better with the next one!
~REVIEW BY VANESSA~
USA TODAY Bestselling author, L.P. Dover, is the author of the Forever Fae series, as well as the Second Chances standalone series, and her NA romantic suspense standalone called Love, Lies, and Deception. She lives in the beautiful state of North Carolina with her husband, her two wild girls, and her rambunctious kitten Katrina.
Before she began her career in the literary world, L.P. Dover spent her years going to college and then graduated to cleaning teeth, which she loved doing. At least until the characters in her head called her away. She has never been the same since.
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