Hacking Cupid: Betting on Love

By Jennifer O'Malley

A computer hacker who decided to play Cupid meets her match in a game of cat and mouse after she targets a wealthy CEO.

 

When Roxie Davenport, a computer hacker with a heart of gold, decided to put her boyfriend through graduate school, she thought when he was done he would be proposing, not dumping her so he could cash in a trust fund she never knew he had. Heartbroken, she decided to put her skills to use.

 

Now, one might call it catfishing, but Roxie preferred the term matchmaking as she emailed various wealthy individuals in the area with various burner email accounts under false pretenses. Roxie Davenport might have fallen for the wrong man, but she was going to make them fall harder.

 

Chase Kramer was not a man to trifle with. As the CEO of the hottest new tech company, he commanded respect. When the first email came through, he thought nothing of it and moved along. But then the young woman who claimed to be in his cyber security division continued to email him, and they were getting more and more personal. And while he responded, he was always vigilant in his suspicions, especially when he looked up the employee file and could tell that it had been tampered with.

 

When Roxie suggested they meet in a hotel suite in one of Vegas' premier casinos, she had no idea what she was thinking. It was too risky, especially since she shouldn't have any plans to show up. But there had been something there she hadn't expected when she had been messaging Chase - a kindness and vulnerability none of the other men seemed to have.

 

It was just supposed to be fun. A way to humiliate the powerful men who thought they could use women for their own purposes. But Roxie didn't plan on feeling like she made a connection with Chase, especially when she didn't even know how much of it was real or if he had caught on to her schemes like a couple of the other men had.

 

One-click now to hack your way into love with Roxie and Chase in HACKING CUPID!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jennifer O'Malley
• Release date: Jan 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224609925

Jennifer O'Malley

Jennifer O'Malley is the author of the contemporary romance series BETTING ON LOVE, which features a new couple each month as they fall prey to the magic of Vegas and falling in love. She grew up in a small town where she didn’t have much but her imagination to keep her occupied. As far back asshe can remember, she always needed a pen in her hand to jot down storyline notes. She now lives in the city with her family, including her human and fluffy kids, and enjoys all things romance, paranormal, and horror. She's excited to be introducing some of those YA loves that she enjoyed, to her kids.

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

ROXIE

Itried to ignore the cool draft from the overnight snowfall that tickled at my toes. Normally, it would bother me but today it only fueled my fury and determination as I hunched over my desk, fingers flying over my keyboard as I scoured the internet for the information I needed on my next target.

Next to me, my phone rang, but I ignored it. There were more pressing matters than whatever Penny had going on.

There was a momentary flash of guilt as I ignored my best friend’s repeated attempts to contact me. But I couldn’t deal with her today. Plus, I knew what she would say. It was a conversation we’d had multiple times.

When my phone beeped, indicating a new text, I thought about ignoring it, but the guilt had me checking to make sure it wasn’t something important.

Roxie, I know you’re there, please pick up. I haven’t heard from you in two weeks and I’m getting worried.

Please, Rox. Don’t do anything stupid.

I slammed the phone back down with a huff.

What did she know about what I had been going through?

Okay, maybe a lot. She’d been there with me, helping through the dark period of my life. She had stayed by my side, no matter how bad it got or how angry I had been.

It changed, however, once she realized what extracurricular activity I had been engaging in the last few months. I couldn’t take the judgmental tone she got with me ever since.

I never should have slipped about what had happened with Jeremy.

That had been where I went wrong.

Frustrated, I locked my laptop and got up to add another log on the fire to try and chase away some of the coldness that started to settle into the small bedroom I had fashioned into an office. I glanced at the monitors that were running various programs and searches. There had to something to find.

I needed something to do. And my prospective new project seemed to be a bust.

With a sigh I headed out of the room and was greeted by Shelby, my firecracker of a kitten I’d found abandoned in my yard. We had a bit of a rocky start when I first brought her into the house a couple weeks ago, but we were learning to live with each other.

She seemed to be enjoying having regular meals she could depend on and had moved on from trying to claw me when she saw me, to a halfhearted swat. I was even allowed to scratch her ears once in a while.

It hadn’t been until Shelby showed up, just before Christmas, that I realized how lonely I’d been since Nathan and I broke up six months ago. After being together for five years, and putting him through graduate school, I thought we’d be together forever.

Obviously, things hadn’t turned out how I expected.

Shelby? I made a few clicking noises to try and get her attention when calling her name didn’t bring her out from wherever she was hiding.

A few seconds later, a streak of orange darted past me in the hall.

Shelby!

Of course, the precocious furball ignored my scolding. Honestly, I wasn’t sure why I bothered. She was going to do what she wanted no matter what I said anyway.

Gingers.

I shook my head at the cat’s antics and made my way down the hall to see what destruction lay in her wake. Thankfully she hadn’t gotten into anything—thank God for small miracles—in the short time since she had darted past me and was sitting in front of her bowl and glared at me as she waited impatiently for me to fill her bowl.

All right, all right, Miss Sass.

As I shook out some food into her dish, I could hear a beep beep beep from down that hall that had me dashing back to my office, ignoring the indignant cries from the abandoned kitten.

At last, I thought, practically rubbing my hands together in anticipation. I had started to think there wouldn’t be anything to find.

I slid into my computer chair and swiveled to face the screen that had alerted me. With a sense of glee I hadn’t felt in months, not since I first connected with Jeremy, I started to scroll though the information I’d collected on the new man I had my eyes on.

Chase Kramer.

He was the CEO of Vegas’ newest security company but something about the company struck me as strange, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Something wasn’t sitting right with me. So, I started to dig into their records and portfolios. They wouldn’t be able to hide their skeletons from me.

On the surface, Hacking Cupid seemed to be your average security company that provided