Lethal Justice
An Alliance Agency Novel: Book 3
Maddie Wade India Kells
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Epilogue
Sneak Peek: Deadly Alliance
Sneak Peek: Knight Watch
Sneak Peek: Hidden Obsession
Thank You
About the Authors
Preface
Lethal Justice
An Alliance Agency Novel: Book 3
Authors: Maddie Wade and India Kells
Published by Maddie Wade
Copyright © June 2020 Maddie Wade Ltd and India Kells
Cover: Emmy Ellis
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Lethal Justice Blurb
Malco Aguilar and Frida Montalvo
A gang war, police corruption, and a past they never knew they shared may steal their future.
Malco has it all; a home he built with his own two hands, a job he loves, and a family in the form of his colleagues at the Alliance Agency. When a friend comes to him for help finding several missing teenagers from the poorest areas of Miami, Malco finds himself drawn back into a world he’d thought he’d left behind when it took everything he loved from him—one of gangs and violence, where only the strongest survive.
Frida has rebuilt her life, clawing her way up from a brutal past filled with bloodshed and betrayal. Now as one of the most gifted and sought-after lawyers in Miami, she is finally living the life she wants. When the police chief asks her to investigate a corruption case, she knows it will require her to dig into the depths of her past and stir up a hornets’ nest that could rip apart the very fabric of the justice system. What she doesn’t realize is that things are about to get deadly.
Running to the only people she trusts, Frida literally falls into Malco’s arms, the sexy former ranger who makes her body sing and her heart yearn for a future. They quickly realize their cases are linked and, as they work them together, secrets are revealed that may tear their fledgling relationship to shreds and change their lives forever.
Malco and Frida must confront their pasts and work together in a game of cat and mouse before bloodshed and violence erupts over Miami and more innocent lives are lost.
Chapter One
Frida Montalvo leaned back in her chair and rubbed her eyes as she looked around her now dark office. Her assistants had long gone home, even her precious right-hand woman Rina, but Frida was used to working late and alone, especially since she had established her law firm in Miami all by herself many years ago.
With a sigh, she rolled her neck before looking back at the documents strewn over her desk. Many more were still inside the boxes at her feet. What the city of Miami and Chief Randall had asked of her was no small task. She knew, as soon as she’d realized the implications and how this particular case would reanimate bad memories from her past, she should’ve said no. Or perhaps that was the very reason she’d accepted the case.
A gang war was brewing in Miami. Frida knew the signs all too well, and there was no doubt about it. However, the chief of police contacting her a few days ago had been the real surprise. It wasn’t standard procedure to bring in an external consultant, especially a lawyer. Still, when he’d explained his suspicions concerning the District Attorney’s office, it had all become clearer and yet considerably more dangerous.
Frida had known Chief Randall a long time, in fact, from way back when she was still in Los Angeles. When they’d met again here in Miami after so many years, only a quick nod of his head had confirmed he remembered her, but he hadn’t engaged in conversation. It was probably for the best. She didn’t want to bring ghosts from the past to Miami.
However, it had become alarmingly obvious that ‘what had been’ couldn’t be left behind.
. Her past had caught up with her, which explained why she was in her office at this time of night working, instead of curled up on the sofa with a chick-flick and a glass of wine.
Chief Randall trusted her, and she was honored by that. He trusted her more than Pool, the District Attorney, and couldn’t risk handing the DA papers that could get destroyed or become weapons in the hands of the gang leaders. Not until he could be sure that no one from the DA’s office was involved and that everyone working in his house was clean as a whistle, which he apparently doubted.
One by one, she replaced the papers in the boxes before locking them inside the small fireproof room in her office where she kept all her important documents.
It would take time to dig through all the evidence that had been gathered and make sense of it, and even longer to assess if any of it was enough to accuse the gang members, or even someone in the attorney’s office of corruption—or worse.
Tomorrow would be another long day, and Frida knew she’d need all her wits about her to accomplish the task given to her. If she
