School of Fish (Fish Out of Water #6) - Amy Lane Page 0,152

blond nurse?—and we’ll make sure you don’t end up shitting in a grocery sack. Deal?”

Jackson closed his eyes, trying to picture Alex. Allies. He needed allies.

“Deal,” he murmured under his breath.

The next time he woke up, there was a perky blond twinky checking his vitals.

“Hello, Baby Cop,” Twinky purred, and Jackson squinted at him.

“Alex?”

“Ah, Dave’s been by. Yes. You can trust me. I’ll treat you right.”

Jackson smiled a little. “Good,” he said. “Good to have people have your back.”

About two weeks later—still in the fuzzy time when days bled into surgeries, bled into weeks, and then just bled—he saw Dave walk by, giving a little wave into his ICU unit.

“No flirting,” Alex said, putting his vitals on the tablet by his feet. “You’re slated for surgery in the next few days. Flirting puts strain on your organs.”

Jackson chuckled weakly. “I don’t even know if that organ works anymore,” he said. Sex? Sure. He’d probably have it. But not in this fucking ICU unit, that was for sure.

“Mine does,” Alex said with a saucy wink. He looked up at the clock. “And it’s time for my break. See you in two hours, Baby Cop.”

It took another month for Jackson to realize they both called him the same nickname.

But that day he realized they were banging each other silly, practically every break.

It gave him something to look forward to, really. Those two kind men, working hard, doing something good with their lives—and falling desperately in love.

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PI Jackson Rivers grew up on the mean streets of Del Paso Heights—and he doesn’t trust cops, even though he was one. When the man he thinks of as his brother is accused of killing a police officer in an obviously doctored crime, Jackson will move heaven and earth to keep Kaden and his family safe.

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Both men are soon enmeshed in the mystery of who killed the cop in the minimart, and engaged in a race against time to clear Kaden’s name. But when the mystery is solved and the bullets stop flying, they’ll have to deal with their personal complications… and an attraction that’s spiraled out of control.

Fish Out of Water: Book Two

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Jackson gets away, but the fallout from the encounter might kill him. It’s not doing Ellery any favors either. When a police detective is abducted—and Jackson and Ellery hold the key to finding her—Ellery finds out exactly what he’s made of. He’s not the corporate shark who believes in winning at all costs; he’s the frightened lover trying to keep the man he cares for from self-destructing in his own valor.

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