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  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty One

  Chapter Twenty Two

  Chapter Twenty Three

  Chapter Twenty Four

  Chapter Twenty Five

  Chapter Twenty Six

  Chapter Twenty Seven

  Chapter Twenty Eight

  Chapter Twenty Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty One

  Chapter Thirty Two

  Chapter Thirty Three

  Chapter Thirty Four

  Chapter Thirty Five

  Chapter Thirty Six

  Chapter Thirty Seven

  Chapter Thirty Eight

  Chapter Thirty Nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty One

  Chapter Forty Two

  Chapter Forty Three

  Chapter Forty Four

  Chapter Forty Five

  Chapter Forty Six

  Chapter Forty Seven

  Chapter Forty Eight

  Chapter Forty Nine

  Chapter Fifty

  EPILOGUE

  Chapter Fifty One

  Chapter Fifty Two

  Chapter Fifty Three

  Chapter Fifty Four

  Chapter Fifty Five

  IRISH

  The Novel

  Olivia Long

  Copyright © IRISH, The Novel 2016

  by Olivia Long

  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

  ORIGINALLY published as a ten part serial called Bad Boy Irish by Olivia Hawthorne. This is the full serial plus over 7000 words of bonus material, so enjoy their dirty, beautiful story from front to back.

  CONTAINS filthy talking, some situational violence and dirty descriptions of sex that will most likely make you warm from your head to your toes and need to be alone with you and your favorite toy.

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  Chapter One

  Lennon

  I could barely stand him from the moment I laid eyes on him.

  I should rephrase that.

  I could barely stand how my body responded to him from the first moment I first saw him.

  Knox O’Connor, Irish fighter, badass, heart breaker and total prick.

  How I ended up marrying him was almost laughable.

  How I ended up falling in love with him was nothing to laugh at.

  He had my body, he had my heart, but could I ever trust a man like him to not break me?

  ***

  I’d been working all week, even on my days off because the new girl my boss hired crapped out at the last minute and he’d begged me to come in.

  So Saturday night, I should have been at home in fuzzy socks curled up with a book and a cup of tea, but I was at O’Malley’s Sports Bar slinging drinks and dealing the shit that came along with a job like that. It was the tenth day in a row and even the horny drunks being overly generous with their tips weren’t making up for it.

  If my boss hadn’t needed me so desperately I would have told him to shove it. But George O’Malley was a good man and almost like a father to me ever since I’d handed him my resume four years ago. My hands had been shaking and my voice had trembled as I’d done my best to sell my skills…or lack thereof.

  Me being a small town girl in the big city had meant I’d been terrified of everything, including my own shadow. George had taken me under his wing and taught me everything there was to know about tending bar in an Irish sports pub.

  He had a daughter my age, but she was in medical school whereas I was drifting and directionless and the perfect bartender for his legendary establishment.

  I’d met them all, NFL players, NHL goalies, NBA ballers, when they were in town they had to pop into O’Malley’s. It was a good luck tradition, one that mainly benefited the old man but hey, whatever worked.

  For the most part, I loved my job, every night but that night…that night I was ready to flip the fuck out by the time I ran into Knox.

  “Sweetheart, hey! Over here,” a man with a deep melodious Irish lilt called to me across the bar.

  I cringed and hunched my back, ignoring the ignoramus and continuing to wipe down the beer glasses I was working on.

  “Come on, kitty, kitty,” the same man said in his rich, throaty voice. I had to admit, it kinda set the hair on my arms on alert as my skin prickled with goose bumps. It was a voice thick with sex and and belonged to a man used to getting what he wanted.

  I finally whirled around, eyes flaming and my cheeks burning and spat out, “What the hell do you want?”

  “There ye go, sweetheart, that’s better,” he said, making my body burn with more than anger. His green eyes sparkled with cocky confidence; his reddish blonde hair pulled back into a loose knot, and his gorgeous face was lightly stubbled along the strong jawline.

  But his body, my god his was solid muscle. I was used to being around men in peak physical form, but he was almost otherworldly. A ripped, toned, tattooed, fighting god of the arena.

  “So what can I…” my voice trailed off as he stared at me, his intense eyes holding me in place like a bug on a pin.

  “Cat got yer tongue, sweetie?” he laughed. “If you wouldn’t mind, be a dear and bring me and the lads a few pints of whatever ol George has on tap these days. Don’t want them drinking the good stuff on me dime, right?”

  He winked at me on the last sentence and I felt my throat clench tight. I nodded like an imbecile and watched him walk away.

  I had to admire the way his tight ass was packed into his even tighter jeans and the way his long, muscled legs carried him across the bar with an air of cockiness hanging over him made it difficult to break away. The crowd subconsciously parted to let him pass and more than a few eyes trailed hungrily after him as he walked through, including my own.

  “Fuck me,” I exhaled under my breath and finished wiping down the last couple glasses.

  “Hey sweetheart, is that what I gotta call ya to get a drink?” a gruff older man with a thick mustache and a bald head yelled in my direction.

  “Hold your horses, I’m busy,” I replied, glad to have a bit of myself back. It was weird how that Irish muscled idiot had made me feel so stuttering and uncertain.

  Surely it had just been that moment and not him at all. I’d been exhausted and imagining things. That’s what it must have been.

  “You gonna go help him?” George asked me gruffly as he strode behind the bar.

  “Since when do I wait tables?” I replied archly. “I’m a bartender, remember?”

  “Just do what I tell ya,” George growled and I jumped back out of his way.

  Somebody pissed in his Cornflakes today, he wasn’t usually so grumpy. Especially not to me.

  I glanced over to where the Irishman was sitt
ing and forced the little bubble of excitement back down into my chest.

  I was tired, he was cute but I didn’t get excited over men. Not like that, and not men like him. It was fatigue that had made me react like I did. I convinced myself of this fact as I drew a few pints off the tap.

  I walked though the bar balancing my tray full of drinks without allowing myself to think about the man with the voice and the muscles.

  Of course I recognized him, but I couldn’t recall his name.

  And I had to focus on the guy sitting to his left or I might fall under his spell again. For surely it wasn’t fatigue, but something strange that made me feel this giddy just being that close to him.

  “There ye are, sweetheart,” he said in that deep, sing-song accented voice. Immediately my knees felt weaker and I felt a heavy thud in my chest where my heart did a cartoon-like flip-flop.

  “Your pints, as you asked,” I said and set them on the table one by one, avoiding his gaze.

  “George never told me he had table service,” grumbled one of the guys sitting with the Irishman.

  “We don’t,” I said saucily with my brow arched just to get the point across.

  “Shit, I gotta be Knox fucking O’Connor to get anything around here?” the same guy continues to bitch.

  “Seems like it, lads,” the Irishman who I now know is named Knox smirked with a smug grin on his face.

  “George told me to do it,” I glared at him, letting him know I wasn’t doing this for him. But who was I trying to convince? Myself?

  Knox lifted a couple pints off the tray for me and I set down the rest.

  As I turned to leave he snaked his hand out lighting fast and grabbed my arm. I whirled back and stared down at him, his skin on mine like fire. It burned and promised so much more if I just willed that hand to move over my body.

  “Here’s a little something for your trouble, kitten,” Knox said with that beautiful voice of his. He slipped something into my apron and winked. “There’s a lot more than that comin’ to ya if you keep smiling and bringing the drinks too.”

  With that he slapped my ass and turned his back to me, said something that the table apparently found uproariously funny because they all howled with laughter as I scurried back behind the bar with my face flaming.

  I pulled the money out of my apron pocket when I was back in my safety zone and gasped when I realized it was a five hundred dollar bill.

  I let my eyes dart across the room to Knox’s table and let myself drink in the sight of him for just a moment before I dove back into my work serving piss warm beer to drunk sports addicts.

  My arm still burned where Knox had grabbed it though, and I wondered who the hell he was. And how did he have that effect on me?

  Chapter Two

  Knox

  My head was pounding when I woke and rolled across the bed to get up and take a piss.

  I heard a low groan and hit a hard lump under the blankets.

  Shit, I thought I’d sent her home after…fek, I didn’t even know what we’d gotten up to last night.

  “Sweetheart, wake up,” I said and pushed the lump under the blankets. “Hey, you, get up.”

  She wiggled up out of the sea of covers and blinked at me like a hung over owl.

  “What time is it?” she croaked and rubbed her mascara streaked eyes.

  “I don’t know, but ye hafta leave,” I said and pulled the blankets off her.

  She grumbled and hugged herself as if to shield her body from my sight. She needn’t have bothered, I only had one thing to do with me cock right then, and that was piss.

  She’d hopefully be gone by the time I got back.

  It hit me when I was shaking off who she was. The girl from the front desk at the hotel I was in.

  God dammit, I thought as I looked at my bleary eyed face in the mirror, what did Jacob, my trainer, always say about shitting where I ate. He said don’t do it. And I’d just fucking done it. Now I’d have to buy a house, anything to not come back to the apartment here at the hotel.

  She was gone when I sauntered out in my naked glory. Thank god, now I could cozy back under the covers, have a quick wank and get a few more hours of shuteye before getting up to train.

  Jake also always told me not to. He was gonna fucking kill me if he caught wind of this.

  I slid back into bed, closed my eyes and gripped my shaft, tugged it a couple times distractedly and then got down to business.

  I couldn’t remember a damn thing about last night, and by the feel of things, I hadn’t managed to come. God damned whiskey dick, made me feel like I could fuck like a rock star but in reality it meant having to finish myself off when I pissed out the booze.

  I started to stroke in earnest, tried to pull an image of last night’s broad, her tits, her mouth, anything, but I drew a blank.

  Without warning the bartender from George’s popped into my mind and my cock responded in kind with a twitch and hardening to an almost painful ache.

  She’d been perfect. Pale, creamy skin with bright green eyes and jet-black hair that cascaded down over her shoulders. And tits, god I had to love a nice set of tits on a lass and she had a really fucking nice set.

  It didn’t hurt that the O’Malley’s shirt she’d been wearing had appeared a couple sizes too small and clung to her small waist like it was a second skin.

  Her hips had flared out, wide and sensuous giving way to shapely legs and an almost plump, full ass.

  Ah, but it was her attitude that got my cock throbbing. I loved a girl with a bit of fire, and she had that determined set to her jaw that meant only one thing.

  She’d be a fun one to break in. Like a wild horse needing to be tamed, she’d toss her head and stamp her foot at me, but she’d eventually let me tame her.

  There’d be no harm in breaking her in, fucking her while I was in the country, and leaving her behind afterwards.

  There was nothing wrong with a month or so of good, old-fashioned fun.

  I was stroking harder, gripping my cock and imagining myself buried balls deep inside the girl’s hot, desperate body.

  “Fuck,” I grunted as I shot my load, thick streams of cum that slid down my hand. I grabbed the sheet, wiped it off, rolled over and went back to sleep.

  Somewhere in the back of my head her smile lingered though. Something in the pit of my stomach clenched when I thought of conquering George’s beautiful little bartender.

  Something like the fighting spirit that had gotten me to the top of the fighting world, the part of me that spotted a goal and wouldn’t back down until I got what I wanted.

  She’d be mine.

  ***

  “Harder! Come on, so you get drunk and fight like a fucking bitch?” Jake yelled at me continually as I punched the bag in the gym we were using. “Maybe I should paint tits on it so you’d be able to fucking focus.”

  I slammed my fists into it a few more times and used my feet to slam the bag repeatedly. I finished with a roundhouse kick to what would be the bag’s head had it been a person.

  Fuck, he wasn’t pissed off for no reason, last night’s binge session had done my shit in good. I was wobbly and not ready for the hours of hard labor Jake had in store.

  I stopped, panting, and reached for my water bottle.

  “I’m getting too old to drink,” I said between breaths. “You need to stop me next time.”

  “You need balance,” Jake said and massaged my shoulders. He was my trainer and manager; he had just as much of a vested interest in my success as I did.

  “I need to stop pounding the whiskey when you’ve got an eight hour training day planned,” I laughed and handed him my water bottle. He stepped back, punched me in the shoulder a couple times and chuckled.

  “I forgive you,” he told me, “They’re our potential sponsors, you were allowed to drink with them. If we get them on board, this could be a multi billion dollar deal over the next five years. That’s more than enough money for all of us.”

 
; I danced on my feet, punched the air in front of me and breathed into the blows. “It is a good fucking deal, ain’t it?”

  “Fuck yeah, the highest offered to any fighter at any time,” he grinned and picked up the arm blocker. He held it up like I was an attack dog and gave me a look.

  I pummeled him with punch after punch until his face was red and his breathing strained.

  “Good, that’s what I’m after,” he laughed as I pulled back. “Now let’s do that a few thousand more times today and we’re good.”

  I punched and kicked, jumped and ran, all to get the booze out of my system and all to reach that level of freedom I craved through exercise.

  The point where my body and brain were no longer stuck on earth, but flew free, like I was high.

  It was strange though; this time the girl from George’s bar kept popping into my head at the most inopportune times.

  Now that was one thing I could fuck to get rid of. Conquer to keep her off my mind.

  Always one for a challenge, I was driven on by the thought of breaking her down and making her mine.

  Even if just for a few nights.

  Chapter Three

  Lennon

  “All right, I’m coming, I’m coming,” I yelled and scrambled around my room for a bathrobe.

  I’d been sleeping off my long night at George’s and had turned off my phone so he couldn’t lure me into working an eleventh night in a row.

  My roommate was at work, and I was catching up on my shuteye when some rude asshole had decided to interrupt.

  I peeked through the peephole and saw a mass of flowers. A gorgeous spray of lilies and roses that blocked the delivery guy’s face.

  “Who is it?” I asked, never one to open the door for just anyone.

  “Blooms and Bees flower delivery, ma’am,” he said and leaned around the flowers to show his face.

  I opened the door with my heart pounding. I never got flowers, and the prospect of such a lovely bouquet got me more than a little excited.

  “Are you Jessica?” he asked with a bored tone.