To Nathan Hunt, honesty is anything but the best policy. Telling the truth has earned him nothing but heartache and pain, so lying about who he is and what he wants seems to be the only path to job security and friends. Hell, it even brings him a hollow kind of happiness.<br><br>Except that's not much of a life for anyone. Desperate to cure his self-made misery, Nathan agrees to go along with a con that will score enough cash for Nathan to start over. There's just one problem: lying is getting harder by the day. And a con who can't lie, is a con who gets caught.<br><br>Nathan's attempts to distract himself from his moral quandary lead him to a mysterious, intoxicating man named Fury, a mixed martial arts fighter who knows a thing or two about lies and pasts better left dead and buried. Together, they undertake a journey that proves honesty is more dangerous and more difficult than either of them could have imagined. And as they combat addiction, thugs, guns, and inner demons, Nathan and Fury can only hope that their battle to be together is worth the bitter fight.

Fight

“I’m sure many feel that way. Without him alive, though, and connecting his operation to the larger organization he’s working for, this particular case is, as I understand it, falling apart. There was already very little linking Fury to the mess. What evidence that did exist went up with the warehouse. Dennis and Elizabeth are both denying his involvement, and Fury told me that his lawyer mentioned putting Fury on the witness stand wouldn’t help anybody.”


“Something about the history of fighting and the tattoos.”


“Oh,” Nathan said. “Well, that’s good, right? He’s in the clear?”


“I think so. But Dennis and Elizabeth are still living links to a much larger fish.”


“Protective custody. Until further notice.”


Nathan nodded. “Fury expected that might happen.”


“That’s true, he did, and the anticipation is making the situation a little easier.”


Nathan smiled wryly. “But not as easy as Fury thought it’d go, huh?”


Chapter 87