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    Protecting What's Theirs
    Protecting What's Theirs
    Protecting What's Theirs
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    Protecting What's Theirs

    By Tessa Bailey

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    Ginger Peet has never regretted leaving Nashville with her sister and their life-sized statue of Dolly Parton. Now she's settled in Chicago with Lieutenant Derek Tyler, spending her nights pressed against every inch of his hard, dominating, and panty-meltingly-hot body.

    And there's nowhere Derek would rather be than reminding Ginger—thoroughly and exquisitely—that she belongs to him. But then trouble hits the streets of Chicago. The kind of bust the old-school boys call a "widow-maker." To keep Ginger safe, Derek's forced to shut her out and keep himself away from her luscious body, or risk losing her forever.

    But Ginger has just been presented with some, er, unexpected news. And right now, it's best she keeps that news to herself. Because Derek stands to lose far more than he knows, until he takes the law—and Ginger—into his own hands one last time...

    Previously released as part of the Lovers Unmasked anthology. Now available individually!

    Each book in the Line of Duty series is STANDALONE:
    * Protecting What's His
    * Officer Off Limits
    * Asking for Trouble
    * Staking His Claim
    * Protecting What's Theirs

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 31, 2014
    ISBN9781622665402
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    Tessa Bailey

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue-collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. She lives on Long Island avoiding the sun and social interactions, then wonders why no one has called. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by Entertainment Weekly, Tessa writes with spice, spirit, swoon and a guaranteed happily ever after. 

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      Brazen it was! Sexy, with a dark touch and a beautiful ending.

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    Protecting What's Theirs - Tessa Bailey

    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Enjoy more heat from Entangled…

    One Night Stand After Another

    A Sweet Spot For Love

    Playing it Tough

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any rtesemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

    Copyright © 2014 by Tessa Bailey. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher.

    Entangled Publishing, LLC

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    rights@entangledpublishing.com

    Brazen is an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC.

    Edited by Heather Howland

    Cover design by LJ Anderson/Mayhem Cover Creations

    Cover photography by VitalikRadko/DepositPhotos

    ISBN 978-1-62266-540-2

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition March 2014

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    Chapter One

    Shitshitshit.

    Ginger Peet took one look at the offending piece of plastic in her hand and hurled it clear across the room. It was reflex. An unconscious action. If she’d have held it a second longer, it surely would have set her hand on fire. She watched the object bounce off her chest of drawers and slide to a stop at the base of her life-size Dolly Parton statue. For once, the giant porcelain likeness of her idol offered zero comfort, the Smoky Mountain Songbird’s frozen smile taking on more of a smirking quality that Ginger definitely did not appreciate. Not now, when she’d just gotten the shock of a lifetime.

    Considering some of the shocks she’d been dealt in her lifetime, especially in the last year, that was truly saying something.

    Well, Dolly? Ginger plopped down hard on the wooden floor, the heels of her cowboy boots making a loud clunk. No clever, down-home advice for me? You’re just going to stand there and act all high and mighty? I didn’t plan for this to happen, you know. She breathed a sigh. I don’t mean it, Dolly. I’m just upset, is all.

    Of course, the statue kept quiet, although when Ginger looked away for a split second, she swore it tilted its head to the left. On hands and knees, Ginger crawled across the room and without touching the object, leaned down and squinted at it, hoping she’d been wrong the first time.

    Nope. Still knocked up.

    She rolled over onto her back, staring blindly at the ceiling. How did this happen? Okay, that time she didn’t imagine the statue’s head tilt. Right? "I mean, I know how this happens. I worked in a bar for seven years. You pick up a thing or two listening to people piss away their troubles over whiskey. But we were so damn careful."

    A flush crept up her neck as a barrage of scenes starring her and Lieutenant Derek Tyler, her boyfriend of nearly a year, blurred together in her mind, starting the week she, Willa, and Dolly had moved in next door. They’d been on the lam, having fled Nashville to escape their dire circumstances. A cop had been her last choice in a neighbor. He’d wasted no time making his intentions clear. Very clear. She shook her head to dispel the visions of their naked, writhing bodies on various surfaces. Don’t look at me like that, she said to Dolly. I remember that time at the Laundromat. And that weekend in Miami last month…

    Ginger slapped her palm to her forehead. Derek had surprised her with a last-minute trip to South Beach, having finally wrapped up a major case and deciding to take his very first vacation since joining the force. Never having been to Florida, let alone on a vacation, she’d forgotten her birth control pills in the excited rush to pack. At first, they’d been careful about using condoms, but there’d been that one single time. And wasn’t that always the way it happened? That afternoon they’d spent on the beach, sipping mojitos. Swimming in the ocean, slipping against one another’s wet bodies, tempting, heightening the anticipation. He’d growled over her choice of a purple string bikini, but she’d felt the effect it had on him. Hadn’t wasted any opportunities to brush against him with her barely covered bottom, wrapping her legs around his waist, leaning over his impressively muscled chest to apply sunscreen.

    By the time they stumbled, kissing and petting each other, into the hotel room, they’d been in a sexual frenzy. She’d been pulled down onto the floor, just inside their hotel room door. Her purple bikini had been torn from her body, baring her

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