WiP Wednesday
Edits for Cozy Bend 6 finished and both books submitted. Now, I’m back to working on Assassins Core 4. I got a good laugh out of part of it as I finished going over the rereads before I dived back in. I like Alexi. She’s a bit laconic, dangerous and amours. She a lot jaguar though.
I’m also working on Cozy Bend 7. It’s the story of one of the characters from Cozy Bend 6. It’ll also cover the threads of an arc I started in 5. I won’t go into here.
Assassins Core 4. I’m about 1700 words in but I’m planning to make this one only around 50,000 words as opposed to the last one. I got a bit long winded. I am finally going back to Ortiz and I’m trying something new on the antagonist. I won’t say what in case I can’t pull it off. It might take a few tries to really things nailed just right. However, I endeavor to improve.
This book also involves Ace a little more. She’s going to be working Ortiz with Alexi because Ace can’t stand what Ortiz is up to.
Here is a brief excerpt.
Alexi slipped into the reception area of her office to find her assistant Max behind his desk.
“Morning boss,” he said throwing her a look. “Got a message for ya.”
She stopped, looking down at the attractive dark-haired male whose brown eyes were like caramel. “From who?” she asked curiously.
“Guy called himself Roderigo Ruiz,” Max said. “He said his boss wants to arrange a playdate with you.”
“Ruiz?”
“Rottweiler shifter and Ortiz’s right-hand man.” He shrugged. “I came up against him a few times in the past. He’s tenacious, but nothing hard to handle.”
“And Ortiz?”
“I think he’s half wolf, but he can’t do a full shift,” he said. “That’s why he surrounds himself with those who can.”
She hadn’t known that. “So, Ortiz wants to meet or is he sending his emissary?”
“Ruiz said Ortiz wanted the meet at Baker’s Dixie Line.”
“Arrange it for—” She glanced at her watch. “Forty-five minutes from now. Tell Slate to get ready to roll and bring along a few friends.”
“I’ll call her first and then him,” he said.
“Good.”
“Your woman called down for you. She said she’s going for brunch with her cousin.”
“Fine,” Alexi said. “I’ll check up on her later. Make those calls, pretty boy.” She slipped into her office and dropped into her chair.
Alexi turned and attached the player to the tablet on her desk and downloaded the files onto it. She then opened one and looked at her device.
The files were of a location, names and pictures of girls. There was also a video included. Alexi opened the file.
It was a brief conversation between Ortiz and Austen Cooley, who was now dead. Ortiz would back Cooley in exchange for a share in the new club he and his brother had been planning to open.
Alexi had taken charge of both the unfinished club and the thriving one. She’d closed the one down for inventory and cleansing it of drugs, but she’d open it back up soon. As for the nearly finished one, she had no real use for it, but she might open it all the same.
It could be a money maker, but she was thinking of selling it.
Ortiz’s plan had been to aid Austen and his brother in gaining their freedom from Breakers as long as they allowed him to move drugs through their club as well as sex. He wanted to add a second floor for prostitution.
She smiled. Probably what he wanted to see her about. Well, fuck him. He’d gone after one of her girls. That couldn’t be allowed no matter what the girl’s connection to the agent was.
