Warrior Fight #2
By Laura Kaye
Self-Published
Tour Host: InkSlinger PR
Source: ARC provided by the author
Resisting her only makes him want her more...
Private investigator Billy Parrish is good at three things—fighting, investigating, and sex. MMA training with the other vets in the Warrior Fight Club keeps his war-borne demons at bay—mostly, and one night stands ensure no one gets too close. But then his best friend from the Army Rangers calls in a favor.
Shayna Curtis is new to town and full of hope for the future. With a new job starting, she's grateful when her brother arranges a place for her to stay while she apartment hunts. But she never expected her roommate to be so brooding. Or so sexy.
Billy can't wait for Shay to leave—because the longer she's there, the more he wants her in his bed. To stay. He can't have her—that much he knows. But when fight club stops taking off the edge, Billy lets down his guard…and starts fighting for what's his.
Private investigator Billy Parrish is good at three things—fighting, investigating, and sex. MMA training with the other vets in the Warrior Fight Club keeps his war-borne demons at bay—mostly, and one night stands ensure no one gets too close. But then his best friend from the Army Rangers calls in a favor.
Shayna Curtis is new to town and full of hope for the future. With a new job starting, she's grateful when her brother arranges a place for her to stay while she apartment hunts. But she never expected her roommate to be so brooding. Or so sexy.
Billy can't wait for Shay to leave—because the longer she's there, the more he wants her in his bed. To stay. He can't have her—that much he knows. But when fight club stops taking off the edge, Billy lets down his guard…and starts fighting for what's his.
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
Oh my goodness! This book absolutely slayed me! From the survivor's guilt to a gas explosion! Fighting For What's His seriously has it all! I can honestly say I'm struggling for words! This book has me tied up in knots! It gives me flashes of The Hard Ink series, but with the energy that makes it apart of the Warrior Fight Club, and I just love it.
So let me tell you more about the two main characters without getting too much into the story, cause I honestly don't want to spoil it!
Billy Parrish is a medically retired Army Ranger, after being injured during a trap in Baghdad, but he is struggling with survivors guilt after losing so many of his brothers at arms. But now Billy is a PI and battles at the warrior fright club on a Saturday, trying to beat his demons.
Shayna Curtis is the sister to Ryan, one of Billy's best friends and fellow brother at arms, so when Ryan called and asked Billy if Shay could stay with him until she finds an apartment in DC for her new job as a photographer for the Gazette. So, of course, Billy says yes! But how will these two cope with each other when the sparks between them could start a fire.
This book is superb from the start to the finish, and I absolutely loved it from the beginning. I loved the fact that we saw Mo again, and I'm really hoping we find out more about him.
The writing is excellent and the plot everything you would expect of a Laura Kaye book! Thrilling, delicious and 100% more-ish!
I give Fighting for What's His 5 well-deserved stars!
Shayna sat nearly plastered against Billy’s side, because the restaurant had squeezed the seven of them into a booth that would’ve been more comfortable for four or five. Only the fact that Mo sat in a chair at the end of the booth made it work, but it was still a tight fit.
Shayna was not complaining.
Because Billy smelled like soap and a clean-scented aftershave and something that was all him—combined, they made up a mouthwatering scent that she wouldn’t have minded drowning in. The whole night she’d been over-aware of the press of their thighs and the way they kept bumping arms until they’d finally broken down in laughter over how difficult it was to cut their steaks without elbowing each other in the face.
Billy turned to Shayna. “Are you having a good time?”
“Yes. Thanks for letting me tag along,” she said.
He shook his head. “You’re not tagging along. I wanted you here. And everyone wanted to meet you.”
“It’s true,” Sean said. “Because it’s not every day someone gets a jump on a Ranger.”
Billy threw the guy an unamused look, and Shayna laughed. “I wouldn’t go that far,” she said.
“Thank you,” Billy said.
“Wait.” Dani held out her hands and surveyed the lot of them. “I need this story from the beginning.”
Which kicked off twenty minutes of her and Billy fighting to tell their versions of the story—sans all mention of her getting naked at the end of it, thank God—while everyone laughed and taunted Billy and high-fived Shayna.
Dani and Tara were totally on her side all the way, and that had Billy refusing to share the piece of cheesecake that he’d agreed to split with Shayna when they ordered it.
She tried to maneuver her fork around his arm, but he blocked her, making her laugh even as she pleaded for a bite. “Come on. It’s not my fault that all your friends think it’s funny that I broke into your house.”
He smirked at her. “That isn’t earning you any cheesecake.”
“It’s my cheesecake, too,” she said, trying again.
He easily blocked her next attack. “Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
“Quit being a dickweasal,” she said, laughing as she tried again.
He grinned and held the dessert plate further away. “Dickweasal, am I?”
“Oh, do you prefer jizzmuffin?”
Mo’s eyebrows went way up. “Listen to the genius coming out of this girl’s mouth.” Everyone laughed. “Is this also courtesy of your brother?”
“Brothers,” Shayna said, not failing to claim Dylan, too. For once. “And yes. I had to be able to insult them back, didn’t I?”
Grinning, Mo grabbed the plate from Billy’s hand when he wasn’t looking.
“Hey!” Billy said, a comically outraged expression on his sexy face.
“Creativity like that takes fuel, brother, that’s all I’m saying.” He handed the plate around Billy to Shayna.
About two-thirds of the cake was left, and Shayna promptly licked the whole top of it. “I licked it. It’s mine now. Take that, assclown.”
The whole table howled in laughter. Mo was actually crying.
And she thought Billy’s expression had been comical before. His jaw dropped. “I can’t believe you just did that.”
She slid a big forkful of the sweet, creamy deliciousness into her mouth. “Oh, believe it,” she said around the bite.
As he watched her, his gaze shifted. From outraged to playful to challenging. And she didn’t think she was imagining more than a little heat in those dark eyes, either. “You think I’m put off by a pretty woman’s tongue, Shayna Curtis?”
Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink and upcoming Raven Riders series. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day. 
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