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she’d lost count of them.  
    Missy faced forward. “I think Peren is totally ignoring us now.”  
    Melanie sighed loudly. “I think you’re right. After a few drinks she’ll be better.”
    “Isn’t everyone?” questioned Missy, bringing the slightest of smiles to Peren’s lips.

Chapter Four

    “Do you smell that?” Lukian asked of Roi , who only just managed to stop trying to leave their place of concealment in search of new hotties to bang for the night. Mission be damned if women were involved. At least according to Roi’s outlook on life as of late. He liked to look at it as saving a woman from going unsatisfied. Lukian saw it more as ignoring his duties.
    “Smells like teen spirit all right,” Roi said, his tongue running across his lips. He looked a little too eager for Lukian’s liking.  
    Lukian ignored the comment because he’d known Roi long enough to know what his tastes in women were, and teenage girls weren’t one of them.
    His focus drew to a group of young women entering the nightclub they’d been camped out in front of for two hours, watching from an area where they wouldn’t be spotted. Nope, not the ones they were in search of. These girls didn’t look legal, which had prompted Roi’s comment about teen and spirit.  
    “Tell me again why we’re here?” asked Lukian, scratching the back of his neck, feeling uneasy about this mission just as much now as when Brooks assigned it to them.
    “Because we have to be,” Roi said contemptuously. “Plus, if the target is a no-show , there are plenty of hotties in there we could take home with us. Mmm, fun times. Want to double-team any?”
    “Stop talking to me,” replied Lukian, staying calm, cool , and collected, despite how much he knew Roi was trying to get him going.
    “Okay, but I’m right. We’re here because it’s orders. Orders fucking blow.”
    The answer wasn’t the one he wanted to hear, but it was the truth. They did have to be here. Lukian knew what their mission was, probably better than Roi. He was, after all, first in command. Search, gather intel , and then eliminate the target. The target was what he had a problem with. It had been a long time since he’d been forced to take a woman’s life. He didn’t look forward to it now.  
    Didn’t help matters that he seemed to be having a visceral reaction to the target. Fuck, her photo nearly left him laying claim to her. He wasn’t sure what was going on, or how his head had gotten so screwed up, but he did know this mission wasn’t sitting well with him.
    He glanced down at the photo of the auburn-haired girl he’d been carrying in his back pocket. Her large green eyes had haunted him since he’d first been given the assignment. He knew the rules: don’t get attached, don’t put a face to the name. He’d broken them both. He’d been fixated on Peren’s picture since he’d received it. He silently hoped he wouldn’t have to be the one to deliver the killing blow. He’d been doing this kind of work for too long and was too good at it to let this one get to him.
    A small sedan pulled into the parking lot, and the hair on the back of Lukian’s neck began to rise, his body going on high alert, his senses wild. He sniffed the air and caught a scent he’d not smelled before, but one he felt he knew—somehow, on some baser level. The fierce need to kill anything he deemed threatening to the scent’s owner came over him. He wanted to kill anyone and anything near the vehicle, assuring the safety of its passengers.
    One in particular.
    It was her.
    He knew it deep in his bones. A low warning growl began to emanate from him, his beast in agreement with his gut reaction.
    Protect the woman.
    Roi lifted a brow. “Something you want to share, Captain?”  
    “No,” snapped Lukian, his gaze on the vehicle he knew without a shadow of a doubt held the target. He watched as a tiny woman with ink-black hair and tanned skin opened the car door. He looked at Roi to