ROMANCING MO RYAN
Authors: Mallory Monroe
ROMANCING MO RYAN
(
an interracial remake of Loose Lips
)
By
MALLORY MONROE
c
2012
Austin Brook Publishing
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MORE INTERRACIAL ROMANCE
FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MALLORY MONROE
:
THE PRESIDENT’S GIRLFRIEND
SERIES IN ORDER:
THE PRESIDENT’S GIRLFRIEND
THE PRESIDENT’S GIRLFRIEND 2:
HIS WOMEN AND HIS WIFE
DUTCH AND GINA:
A SCANDAL IS BORN
DUTCH AND GINA:
AFTER THE FALL
DUTCH AND GINA:
THE POWER OF LOVE
THE MOB BOSS SERIES
IN ORDER:
ROMANCING THE MOB BOSS
MOB BOSS 2:
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
MOB BOSS 3:
LOVE AND RETRIBUTION
ALSO:
ROMANCING HER PROTECTOR
ROMANCING THE BULLDOG
IF YOU WANTED THE MOON
AND
MORE INTERRACIAL ROMANCE
FROM
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
KATHERINE CACHITORIE:
LOVING THE HEAD MAN
SOME CAME DESPERATE:
A LOVE SAGA
WHEN WE GET MARRIED
ADDITIONAL BESTSELLING
INTERRACIAL ROMANCE:
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
YVONNE THOMAS
AND
BACK TO HONOR:
A REGGIE REYNOLDS
ROMANTIC MYSTERY
JT WATSON
ALSO AFRICAN-AMERICAN
ROMANTIC FICTION
FROM
AWARD-WINNING
AND
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TERESA MCCLAIN-WATSON:
DINO AND NIKKI:
AFTER REDEMPTION
AND
AFTER WHAT YOU DID
COMING SOON FROM
MALLORY MONROE:
ROMANCING MO RYAN 2
AND
DUTCH AND GINA:
BOOK SIX
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ONE
Two Years Earlier
It was the last night of the convention and Mo Ryan was restless.
He had spent the entire week with Nikki Tarver, but so had all of the other lecturers.
As a well-respected criminal court judge from Florida, Mo had been invited to the Cleveland convention to lecture brand new journalists on the limits of their First Amendment protections.
Nikki, as a brand new local journalist with one year under her belt, was invited to speak from her own experience about the mistakes young journalists often made, and how to avoid getting ensnared in those mistakes.
And Mo and Nikki and all of the other invited lecturers had done everything, from eating to sightseeing to just sitting around and talking, as a group.
Mo would often sit back and watch Nikki.
At twenty-three, she was by far the youngest in the group, and was the only African-American.
He put her height at about five-six or so, a good four inches shy of his six feet, and although she was small of frame, Mo couldn’t help but notice how well-endowed she was, and how the young lady had some very nice curves.
But it was her face that fascinated him.
She had a small, narrow face, with eyes so big and golden-brown that they were one stretch away from being pop eyes, and with natural eyelashes so long and flowing that they almost looked unnatural.
And whenever she would look down and then suddenly look back up, and directly at Mo, his chest would squeeze.
It wasn’t the beauty of those eyes that stunned him, but the innocence in those eyes, and the vulnerability he saw.
With her eyes and her high cheekbones and her African lips and nose, she often gave off an air of arrogance, of somebody who thought she was above it all.
But Mo saw beneath the veneer.
He saw something deep within those eyes.
And sometimes, while he watched her, he would wonder if this strong, together, always serious black woman, wasn’t just a little terrified.