Love at First Kill

Love at First Kill

Author: Mary E. Roach Listening Length: 8h 9m
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A hit man conspires with an unlikely new partner who has vengeance on her mind in a riveting and emotional novel of romantic suspense by the author of We Are the Match. Contract killer Jack O’Sullivan has corrupt billionaire Cale Jacobson in his crosshairs—until a woman in red ambushes Cale first, ruining the biggest...

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Jack secured waitstaff uniforms after they’d bought Ava’s dress—a skintight red dress that made his mouth water. Ava, for her part, was strangely quiet as the sun set Friday evening.

He’d asked her—twice, maybe three times now?—whether she was okay. She’d redirected, joked her way around it. He’d tried to chalk it up to nerves, as they were less than a day away from killing Cale, but there was an undercurrent that worried him.

Jack was up before dawn on Saturday morning, only to find Ava already awake.

“T-minus twelve hours until the gala,” she said, but she avoided his eyes as he flicked on the lamp at their bedside.