Hard Time: A thief and a con artist – who will come out on top? by Chloe Fischer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars.
Xavier – he can steal the one thing people can’t buy.
Danica – con artist extraordinaire.
He grew up in a dark place, needing to use a mysterious special ability he developed to protect himself. He soon realized that the same ability could provide…other things for him too.
But then Xavier gets into a situation where even his special skills can’t save him.Hard Time
Growing up on the streets taught her to be quick, savvy, and ruthless. Her stunning good looks helped her out of a few tight situations too. Now she’s on the run, but she needs to decide if she’s running away from Xavier…or toward him?
Xavi may not have the sexy job or money as his brother Ryder from the first book, but this book is hotter!
This book is about the second brother Xavier, who was three years old when the mother Shirley was killed, and Father Drake was shot multiple times. Drake had to send his four children away to separate homes for their own safety from evil organization Oculus (sort of the Hydra of this world). Drake’s second in command, Vance Berkeley was the one person who knew what families the children were placed with, but he was murdered by Oculus. So Drake has been searching ever since.
Apparently at one time Drake must have had a short affair with Mrs. Berkeley. Possibly before he was married to Shirley, because we know he was devoted to her. Anyway he now thinks she might know something or there might be something at her house that was overlooked which may lead him to his boys. So he goes to see her and starts up another affair with her though he feels guilty about it, he will basically do anything to find his boys before Oculus does.
Xavi was given to an assistant to a director in some governmental capacity but she didn’t keep the job for long and never got another job. She ended up a drug addict who rarely fed Xavi and he was eventually taken away from her and moved from one foster home to another until he aged out at 18. He now works as a clerk at a BDSM dungeon where people come in and pay to be Dom’s or Sub’s. He is able to stop time, so whenever someone comes in with a good credit card (Platinum, Black), he stops time and writes down the numbers for himself.
On the way to work every day he stops in front of this house that has a sign offering psychic readings. He doesn’t know why he is drawn to that house. Inside is a girl named Danika who, with her friend Twila scam people out of their money using the internet, tarot cards, palm reading and so on.
After a client dies in a crazy situation at the dungeon and Xavi is drawn into the mess, he has to get rid of the body and somehow ends up parked in front of Danika’s house. The situation gets even crazier from there. Suffice it to say the romance is sizzling, the action is non-stop, and I loved it all. Plus Xavi is smokin hot 🥵!
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