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The King

A. Rivers
Contents ( 40)
  1. THE KING
  2. A. RIVERS
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue - 7 years earlier
  5. Present Day
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Chapter Twenty-One
  26. Chapter Twenty-Two
  27. Chapter Twenty-Three
  28. Chapter Twenty-Four
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  32. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  33. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  34. Chapter Thirty
  35. Chapter Thirty-One
  36. Epilogue
  37. Also By Alexa Rivers
  38. Fighter’s Heart – Excerpt
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. About the Author
The King

THE KING

A. RIVERS

Copyright © 2022 by A. Rivers

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This book is a work of fiction. All people, places, brands, and organizations within it are fictional or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, places, brands, and organizations is entirely coincidental.

Editing and proofreading by Paper Poppy Editorial and Caroline Acebo.

Cover design by Steamy Designs.

Contents

Prologue - 7 years earlier

1. Present Day

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Epilogue

Also By Alexa Rivers

Fighter’s Heart – Excerpt

Acknowledgments

About the Author

To Kate and Caroline

For helping me make this story what it is.

Prologue - 7 years earlier

Willow

Was this what a broken heart felt like? This strange, splitting sensation in my chest?

Tears streamed down my cheeks as I perched on the edge of my father’s desk, barely able to see the familiar row of vintage guns through my blurred vision.

I was an idiot. Such a monumental idiot.

I should have known better than to think a guy like Emmett had really been interested in me, but I’d been flattered by his attention and gone along with it.

So naïve.

Now, all I wanted was a hug from my dad, but according to his personal assistant, Sonia, he was in a meeting. She’d ushered me into his office and told me I could wait for him here. I think she hadn’t wanted to deal with my tears. Especially not where I could disturb the employees. My father ran a security company with dozens of staff who were too busy protecting others to have time for a teenage girl’s hysterics.

I wouldn’t want them to see me like this anyway. It was far too humiliating.

The door swung open, and I jolted in surprise.

“Can I have a word with you, Frank? It’s about the Walton account.” The man looked up, and his smooth voice broke off when he realized it wasn’t my dad sitting at the desk. “Oh, Willow. Hello. I was just looking for your father.”

I stared at him, momentarily unable to speak. Ronan King, the hottest man in the universe, had always had that effect on me. He had thick brown hair, a strong nose, and a delicious five o’clock shadow Emmett and the other high school boys could only dream of. Something fizzed in my stomach, and tingles spread over my skin. But then the sensation soured when I remembered that I was sitting on the edge of Dad’s desk with puffy eyes and mascara-stained cheeks. This seriously could not get any worse.