Cuff Me
New York's Finest #3
By: Lauren Layne
Releasing March
29, 2016
Forever
Forever
Blurb
Vincent knows he's not the most charming of
the Moretti brothers. He prefers brooding to flirting, reading to talking, and
he sure as hell isn't about to give into his mother's insistence that he
'settle down with a nice girl.' Luckily, Vincent's gig as one of the NYPD's top
homicide detectives keeps him busy. As does his long-time partner, Jill
Henley–a tough-as-nails cop with the face of an angel and smart mouth that
makes Vincent crazy in all the worst ways.
After six years of working the homicide beat
with the tight-lipped Vincent Moretti, Jill figure she knows him better than
anyone. Which is not at all. But when their most recent case points to a
potential serial-killer situation, the higher-ups send them on a rare
undercover mission to a place no NYPD officer dares go: the Upper Eastside.
Now the bureau's most antagonistic set of
partners is posing as Mr. and Mrs. Brooks of Park Avenue. Spending 24/7 in the
suspect's territory brings them closer and closer to their killer . . . and
closer to each other. Soon Vincent and Jill are playing good cop/bad cop in and
out of bed, and Jill's falling hard. But can she convince Vincent to give her a
shot as partner in life, as well as at the bureau?
Excerpt:
Only a week after,
he’d stuck out his hand and introduced himself as Tom, Tom Porter, in a sort of
James Bondian way that made her giggle. They had been eating dinner at that
very same hotel restaurant.
Only a week after
that, dinner with Tom had become the norm rather than the exception.
The week after
that?
They occasionally
threw lunch into the mix, either her coming to meet him at some fancy place
while her mom was in physical therapy, or him bringing fabulous picnicstyle
lunches to her mother’s house, where he’d proceed to charm Jill’s mom almost as
thoroughly as he charmed Jill.
Five weeks into
Jill’s stay in Florida, Jill had stuck around for breakfast.
In his hotel room.
And then there’d
been last night.
“Okay, okay, so
he’s a dreamboat,” Elena said as the car crept slowly through rush hour traffic
toward Manhattan. “How’d he pop the question? Champagne? Roses? Fancy
restaurant with a water view?”
“Holy crap,” Jill
said with a laugh. “Were you there?”
“I know all,” Elena
said, extending her hands to the side as though she were some wise sage. “Did
you see it coming at all?”
“Not even a little
bit,” Jill admitted.
Not even with the
expensive champagne, or the two dozen roses, or the fact that the restaurant
staff seemed to be going out of their way to give Jill and Tom privacy at the
terrace table overlooking the ocean.
She’d simply
thought it had just been a really fantastic good-bye.
Instead it had been
a bit more of a be mine forever and ever.
And Jill had said
yes.
She’d said yes
almost the second he’d gone down on his knee, not because she’d been that
sure—she’d been pretty sure . .. sort of sure—she’d said yes because in
that moment, Jill had wanted what Tom Porter was offering her.
A companion. A
partner. Love.
And that’s what it
came down to. Jill wanted to be loved. She wanted to love.
She loved her
mother, obviously. And loved the memory of her father, God rest his soul.
And though she had
no siblings of her own, the Morettis had filled that gap. And with the recent
addition of Luc’s girlfriend, Ava, and Anthony’s new wife, Maggie, she had some
amazing girlfriends to add to the mix.
And last, but never
least, there was Vincent. Her partner. In some ways her best friend, although
in a way that was different from her relationship with Elena.
But as much as
Vincent sometimes seemed like two parts of the same whole, he’d always held a
bit of himself back from her. From everyone.
He’d made no secret
of the fact that he had no intentions of getting married, ever. Any fantasies
Jill had had that her partner would one day wake up and see her were long gone.
Which left her a
bit.. . lonely.
She wanted someone
to come home to at the end of the long day who would just be there. Who’d pour
her a glass of wine, maybe rub her feet and just listen.
Tom offered Jill
what nobody else had offered her... ever.
Love. Commitment. A
future.
And she knew that
he loved her. Fast as their relationship had developed, she could feel it. And
she loved him too. At least she was pretty sure.
“Aww, you like
him,” Elena said teasingly, reaching out a finger and poking the dimple in
Jill’s left cheek.
“I want to be happy,
El. I want the happily-ever-after with someone who wants it with me.”
She met her
friend’s eyes and saw from the flash of regret on Elena’s face that El
understood what Jill wasn’t saying out loud.
I can’t wait for Vin forever.
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Author Info
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. A year after moving from Seattle to NYC to pursue a writing career, she
had a fabulous agent and multiple New York publishing deals.
Lauren currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and plus-sized Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll likely find her running (rarely), reading (sometimes), or at happy hour (often).
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