Mag-log inThe Price of Peace is the final showdown and book three for the No Regrets crew, where the masks come off and the bills finally come due. Shane O’Brien is done playing house. He’s been living his life like a "glorified roommate" with his wife, Isla, ever since she broke their vows with her best friend's husband, but now the cold war is turning hot. While Shane finds a temporary sanctuary with Maya Cruz, Isla is weaponizing their children trying to save a marriage that might already be lost, but will she realize this too late, or burn the whole house down. Speaking of Maya, she has a few secrets of her own, one that involves Mayor Rogers and a scandal that could level the city. In the courtroom, Crandon Morgan is fighting to keep his name clean after a very public mental meltdown. He’s looking for a comeback, but he finds a distraction in Tempest Summers, a new law junior associate with a haunted past and a hunger for a kind of justice the law books don’t cover. Meanwhile, Kole Michaels is trapped in a different kind of nightmare. A past mistake named Akeisha is using a legal loophole to pin a child named Urmagisty on him. With his relationship with a different Keisha on the line and his daughter Mabel watching, Kole has to prove he’s being set up before the lie becomes his life. In this game, peace isn't free, you have to pay for it in blood, truth, or with everything you own.
view moreCrandon POV After our date at Buckingham Fountain Saturday night, we walked past people selling neon necklaces and light-up gadgets. Tempest’s eyes lit up like she was a kid at a carnival, so I bought her a spinning fan that glowed in different colors and a neon necklace she put on immediately. I laughed and added a bracelet to the mix just because I liked the way she smiled when she was excited.As we kept walking, I asked, “So how are you liking the job?”“I’m actually loving it,” she said. “I love the dynamic. I love how family-oriented you all are. One minute it’s serious business and the next minute everybody’s laughing.”“Yeah,” I said. “Other than that whole incident with me and Carmen, I’ve never had an issue there. I was born into that company, so growing up and then actually becoming part of it, it means something. Some of our cousins went off and did their own thing, but they still come back in different ways. My cousin Philandra, she didn’t want to be an accountant or a l
Maya’s POV, After hanging up the phone with Shane, I shake my head. As a parent, just like Shane, just like Isla, I know exactly how this looks. Chasing someone who doesn’t want you anymore, using whatever tactics you can just to get them to interact with you. I’ve been there.When I first had my child, I moved just like that. I went to the mayor’s office over and over, trying to talk to him, trying to force a conversation. I threatened to tell the world about the baby. And every time, he threw more money at me, more “opportunities,” more hush offers. I was young. I was dumb. I took it.When Gabby was born, it got worse. I showed up everywhere he went, baby in hand. He wouldn’t even look at her. Not once. I had to accept that he didn’t want her. He didn’t want me either.He married another woman. He met her long after we started dating, after I was already pregnant. Six months. That’s all it took for him to marry her. Meanwhile, we had been dealing with each other for almost two yea
Shane’s POVI finish the burgers first, making sure the cheese melts just right over the patties, then I drop the fries into the deep fryer. They don’t take long. Once they float, I shake them off, hit them with seasoning salt, not regular salt, seasoning salt, because that makes all the difference.I pull out the ketchup and the mayo and mix them together in a small bowl for Sophie. She’s been hooked on that combo ever since I took them to a co-worker's backyard party in Skokie.“Daddy, I wanna try it,” she had said.Now she won’t eat fries any other way.I grab drinks from the fridge, but my mind isn’t in the kitchen anymore. It’s back on the call I had earlier with Maya.Flashback“Hey baby.”“Hey lovebug. Are you coming tonight?”I exhale. “I can’t.”She paused. “Why?”“My daughters,” I say. “When I came home last night I found my daughter in my bed, to which never happens, even if they are scared, and she asked me if I still loved them, and then asked me why I don’t stay home, an
Isla’s POV After my little impromptu meeting with the mayor and his crazy ass, I decided I might work with him. A little bit. Not a lot of bit. I don’t trust him. He’s creepy in that polished, smiling for the camera way, and the fact that he only seems to want Maya because she was, in his words, “the best sex of his life” is wild when that woman is also the mother of his child. That alone tells me everything I need to know about his priorities.I did my homework on him. During my at home work time I pulled up everything I could find on him. Public records, old photos, charity galas, tagged posts, the whole nine. He was seen out with Maya a full year before he ever met his wife. Then suddenly he marries this nepo baby with money and political connections, a girl ten years younger than him, no kids, pristine image. Meanwhile Maya who is still younger than him, just not that young is pushed to the side like she was a phase.It’s messy. Calculated. And it makes my skin crawl.He’s not gi






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