MIKE BRAVO OPS: ROGUE
Mike Bravo Ops #2
by Eden Finley
Cover & Excerpt Reveal
Release Date: July 13, 2022
Cover Design: Cate Ashwood Designs
Photo: Peter Henry Serres
Model: Alex
Genre: M/M Military Romance
Trope: Frienemies to lovers, found family
Synopsis
TRAV
I remember the first time I met Dylan Rodriguez. It was one sweaty encounter Iโll never forget.
The second time we met, he arrested me. I can still see the hot scowl on his beautiful face as he slapped handcuffs on me and realized I was โฆ me.
Dylanโs main goal in life is to forget he ever met me. My goal is to make him mine.
Turns out, I’m better at this game than he is.
DYLAN
When my law enforcement career falls to pieces in front of my own eyes, I donโt know who I can trust.
I have nowhere to go. No one to turn to.
Asking Trav for help is a last resort, but Iโm desperate.
If he canโt get me out of this mess, I may as well turn myself over to the guys hunting me down.
Iโm not sure which will be more difficult: protecting my life or my heart.
Because when it comes to love, my heart wants what my brain doesnโt. It wants Travis West.
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Excerpt
I should give motivational speeches. Three ways to tank your career with one botched raid.
One: Sleep with your target.
Two: Find absolutely no evidence at the scene.
And three: Sleep with your fucking target.
As I stare into the interrogation room behind a two-way mirror at the man who, in my own words, fucks like a god, I want to recoil in embarrassment and shame.
Definition of irony: Newly promoted DEA agent has sex with drug smuggler.
โHeโs asking for you,โ Special Agent Walker says. โHe knows you by name.โ
And thanks to the file I was given, I know his full name. Travis West.
Iโm regretting giving him my name. Then he wouldnโt be able to ask for me.
I shouldโve walked away the minute he pulled his amazing cock out of my ass. No names. No words needed.
โDo you know him?โ Walker asks.
Intimately. โWe met once. At a bar.โ Where he made me come so hard I almost blacked out. Iโm not telling my senior officer that.
โWell, heโs the only one who hasnโt lawyered up, but heโs refusing to speak to anyone but you.โ
I grunt. How am I supposed to go in there and act like I havenโt had his dick inside me? Worse yet, how am I supposed to stop him from spilling our history, however brief, while Iโm questioning him?
My boss will be watching.
Maybe if weโd found the drugs, my unwitting tryst with a suspect could be forgiven. But that ship was clean. How could I have been so wrong when I was convinced that Jason Carter was one of the biggest drug lords in the US with ties to Mexican cartels.
I want to tell my boss I wonโt get any information from interrogating Trav, but I already know what his response will be. You donโt know until you try.
Then Trav glances up and smiles at his reflection in the glass, but I know heโs actually directing it at me. Like he knows Iโm about to cave.
โOkay. Iโm going in.โ And on my way, Iโm making a new rule for myself: No more random, anonymous hookups.
I enter the interrogation room and try to stay passive, but his sexy voice immediately throws me off kilter. Not because of the deep rumble of his tone, but because of what he says.
โDo you think you could take these off?โ He lifts his hands where heโs cuffed to the table by a chain. โIโm not used to handcuffs being around my wrists.โ
Fucker. He knows what heโs doing. Because now all I can picture is him fucking me while Iโm restrained.
โSure.โ I guess Iโve decided to play good cop. Passive and friendly, but not flirty.
I release him, and he rubs his wrists like theyโre so sore.
โYou werenโt cuffed for that long.โ
โI know, but Iโve seen people do that in movies.โ He leans back in his seat. โSo how have you been? I didnโt think I was going to see you again.โ
โThis isnโt a social chat. I need you to tell me everything you know.โ
โFind any drugs yet?โ That tiny twitch of his lips tells me heโs in on the operation. He knows whatโs what.
โWhat makes you think weโre looking for drugs?โ
โYouโre the Drug Enforcement Administration. Iโd hope you were looking for drugs, or I have to tell you, you might not be very good at your job.โ
โBut Iโm sure youโre good at yours. What is your job exactly?โ
โOoh, smooth interrogation tactic there, Dylan.โ
โMy name is Agent Rodriguez.โ My stupid voice cracks on my last name, making it basically unintelligible.
โWhatโs that? Rogue-riguez? That sounds promising.โ He leans forward. โYou willing to go rogue to get the answers you want?โ
โRodriguez. And no. Iโm sure I could cut a deal for you and your friends, though โฆ if you cooperate. You were the muscle, right? Hired to protect the cargo without actually knowing what you were protecting?โ
โAre you implying Iโm a dumbass whoโs unaware of my surroundings?โ
Now I lean in, locking eyes with him across the table. โAre you telling me you know more than youโre letting on?โ
Trav smiles. โDamn. Your interrogation skills really are on point. Iโm impressed.โ
โImpressed enough to tell me what you know?โ
โI know lots of things. Useless trivia, mostly. Do you like trivia nights? Thereโs a really laid-back bar I like to go to when they have trivia. Itโs called the Aqua. You ever been?โ
The Aqua doesnโt do trivia nights. I should know. Itโs where he dicked me out in a bathroom stall.
โCanโt say that I have.โ
Itโs not like the other guys in my department are unaware that Iโm gay, but I like to keep my private life, well, private at work. They all know, but I donโt want them to know detailsโlike where I frequent. I get the feeling that was Travโs way of gauging whether Iโm out or not, so I shut him down. Maybe then he wonโt hint at what happened between us.
My job depends on that staying quiet.
Trav eyes me, and I get the impression heโs trying to figure out if Iโm denying it for the sake of denying it or if Iโm closeted.
Trav glances at his watch and then back at me. โI want to cut a deal.โ
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Eden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff.
She doesn’t take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. The ideas always begin with a wackadoodle premise, and she does her best to turn them into romances with heart.
With a short attention span that rivals her son’s, she writes multiple different pairings: MM, MMF, and MF.
She’s also an Australian girl and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don’t make sense to anyone else.
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