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be a new start to my life?”
    He smiled, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes. “Come find out, Alaina. You’re special. One little meeting isn’t going to hurt, is it?”
    Getting up from his stool, he threw three twenties down on the bar and walked toward the door without another word. As Alaina ’s heart rapidly thumped in her chest, an uneasy feeling came over her. Who was he? And what made her so special that she could see things others couldn’t?

Chapter 7
    Blake looked around the War Room as he listened to Noah talk. All the Warriors were present: Rayner, Hudson, Jovan, Cohen, Annis, and the newest member of their clan, Nico.
    The only one who was missing was Talin, and he wouldn’t be joining them any time soon, as he was six feet under the dirt in the middle of the desert.
    It had been just over six months since Talin had died at the hands of The Platoon, and it had been a rough road for all the Warriors. Blake had watched each of them deal with the grief in their own way. Rayner seemed to close up on himself, keeping Faith even closer than usual, as if she was some type of tether to his sanity. Hudson worked out more, cooked more, and spent more time with Beverly and their son, Killian. Cohen had gone and fell in love with the beautiful Annis, and although he grieved, the relationship with Annis had eased him and helped him through it. Jovan and Liberty had actually moved up to the silo in Fernley for a few months because they couldn’t take the deep emotions of the silo in Phoenix.
    As far as Blake went, he felt bad about what had gone down before Talin had been killed. He probably could have been a little nicer to the guy, but he hadn’t been, and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it.
    Man, what a mess that had been. The Platoon consisted of five guys who were part of the group of beings from SR44 sent to Earth to carry on their species when it became clear that the planet was going to destruct. It was the same group of people that Annis and Nico had come with.
    The Platoon’s leader was a crazy asshole named Micah, and his right-hand man, Jael, had gunned down Talin in cold blood. He’d also shot Jovan and Cohen. When it came time for Cohen to do the healing, which consisted of Cohen putting his energy into the injured body and working with the body’s spirit, Talin had insisted to be with his dead lovren , to let him die, and they had. Not that he’d given them much of a choice. The dude’s spirit had hovered above his body until his body finally gave out, making sure that Cohen had no energy to work with.
    They had gone after The Platoon, searching for them nightly, but it was as if they had disappeared off the face of the Earth. After six months, they had given up and decided that revenge would be served up later when The Platoon least expected it.
    Noah worried him. He seemed to be going off the deep end.
    A couple of months ago, Noah had put up blinds over the floor-to-ceiling glass walls in the War Room so no one could see in, giving the place a cave-like feeling. Anyone with a little bit of claustrophobia would not be comfortable sitting in here now. He also became even more insistent that Abby not know anything about their work in hunting the Colonists, and he made a rule that nothing discussed in the War Room was to be spoken outside it.
    A week after Talin’s death, Noah had gotten spitfire drunk and confessed that guilt was ripping him up from the inside out for sending Talin with Jovan and Cohen to meet Micah. Talin had been looking for a way out ever since he’d learned that SR44 was no more, that he would never be reunited with his lovren . But Noah still felt as if he had pulled the trigger himself.
    Blake had tried to talk some sense into Noah, but with no luck. Noah held the weight of Talin’s death on his shoulders, as well as the burden of being the leader of the Six Saviors and their mission of eradicating Colonists.
    With that weight came the renewed vow to