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The Wrong Instinct

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Parts 12
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Reads 138
Votes 22
Parts 12
Time 58m

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[🏅 featured twice on Romance's reading list]

Alexa Bailey is a homicide detective who was shot in the line of duty. A year later, she is finally cleared to be on the field and has been on a streak ever since she has returned. 

But when a familiar name comes up in an ongoing investigation, she turns to an unexpected person--someone she arrested for second degree murder years ago.  

Ty Archer is charming in his own kind of way. Bound to a cell for the rest of his life, the last thing he anticipated was to be needed by someone who had put him there in the first place. 

With the sudden entertainment in his hand, she knows he holds the key to cracking her case wide open. He is not making it easy. But Alexa has been playing this game for a long time. She knows all of his moves.

Except one.

The one that makes him her partner.All Rights Reserved

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Unknown | ✔ | First Version by Young_Queen1246

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The Deceptive Detective

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