Stunner (Bones MC 9)
Marteeka Karland
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Table of Contents
Stunner (Bones MC 9)
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Marteeka Karland
Stunner (Bones MC 9)
Marteeka Karland
Suzie -- I’m the youngest grad student at MIT, and to say other students resent me for it is an understatement. To top it all off, I miss my Stunner. He’s been with me through the darkest moments of my life, helping me pull myself back together. He’s seen me at my worst -- I want him to see me at my best. If he’d just return my calls, I might be able to get myself around the mean girls (and boys) at school.
Stunner -- To say I’ve got skeletons in my closet is the understatement of the century. Suzie deserves a man more suited to her station than me, and she definitely deserves a man who’s not a stone-cold killer. I have my uses. Protecting her body, heart, and soul is one of those. I just never expected to fall for the woman after the girl grew up.
Now not only has she run into a foul and vindictive bastard, my past has caught up to me, and there may be no way to keep from being swept back up into the madness. All I truly know is I won’t let any of it touch Suzie -- even if it means giving her up. Forever.
Chapter One
“You staying here during break again?” The svelte redhead, Rebecca Tillerson, was not Suzie’s favorite person. As a rule, all the graduate students at MIT thought Suzie was weird because she didn’t socialize with anyone. More than one of the people living in her graduate housing openly made fun of her. Intellectually, Suzie knew they were threatened by her. She was the youngest person currently in a graduate program and had proven invaluable in helping her professors get funding for major projects both inside and outside her major of Astronautics and Aeronautics. More than one of the math professors routinely snagged her outside normal channels, and it had ruffled feathers of many of the math grad students.
“Haven’t decided,” Suzie answered. “Depends on my family’s schedule.”
Rebecca laughed merrily. “You say that like your family has all kinds of important things to do. You come from a hick town in Kentucky. What could they possibly be doing?”
“Well, my dad owns a security company. Sometimes he has to go to headquarters in South Carolina. I don’t like going because of the soldiers there. They’re kind of scary.” As always, Suzie talked too much.
Rebecca’s eyes got wide. “Scary? You mean you don’t go and hook up with one of the security guys? Even for the evening?”
“I don’t like scary men,” Suzie said softly.
The other woman’s mockery made Suzie’s face flame. “You’ve got to be kidding me! You’re an even bigger wuss than I thought.” Rebecca looked up at a busty blonde woman approaching them. “Georgina! You’ve got to hear this!” She looked back at Suzie, amused contempt in her gaze. “What’s the name of this security company your dad supposedly owns?”
Suzie really wanted to just leave, to turn her nose up at the two women and get the hell out. Instead, she found herself answering. Just like she always did when the two women berated and humiliated her. “ExFil Corporation.”
Rebecca snorted. “Your dad doesn’t own that place. It’s some service guy who’s a biker or something. Real badass.”
“He does. Joe Gill is my dad, and he owns ExFil.”
“Whatever. Georgina, little miss thang over here doesn’t like ‘scary men.’” She made air quotes. “That’s why she doesn’t go home during breaks. Because if her dad has to go to ExFil headquarters, she’s afraid to be around them.”
Georgina looked at Suzie like she was crazy. “You mean all those muscled, crazy-hot guys don’t do it for you?” She gave a disbelieving snicker. “You’re too much, Suzie. Stick to math. You’re good at that. But you’re a horrible liar.”
“I’m not lying!” She didn’t know why she felt the need to defend herself because, no matter what she said, Georgina and Rebecca would never believe her when they were wanting to make fun of her.
“Oh, please! You’re telling us that your dad owns the biggest security firm in North America and yet you’re going to college? If he were that loaded, you’d be home, basking in the sun and waiting on your inheritance. You aren’t rich. You’re just some freak of nature who wants people to believe she’s something.”
“I’ve got classes to prepare for,” Suzie muttered, and headed up to her apartment. To her utter embarrassment, the two women laughed so loudly there was no way everyone in the stupid building hadn’t heard.
College
