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assassination. History has it they poisoned him and when that didn’t work, beat him, shot him four times, and then drowned him.”
    “ And he survived?”
    Barry’s head bobbed up and down. “Although, they thought he was dead when they fished him from the water. The y buried him, then dug him up and set him on fire. And then shit got weird.”
    “Weirder than their overzealous attempts to murder the man?”
    “Apparently, he sat up, covered in flames, and walked away.”
    “No fucking way.”
    “Hey, I’m just telling it like it is. After that, though, Rasputin stayed away from politics. Some claim it’s on account his daughter chained him in a dungeon because he turned into a brain-eating zombie.”
    “We had to do that to a great uncle of mine. He wouldn’t put his human skin back on after his wife died and started going after humans.”
    “The point I was trying to make is she comes from some seriously evil stock.”
    Ryker snorted. “ We all have family members we’d prefer to disown.” Ryker knew all about the family black sheep, or in his case, panther. Whatever you wanted to call him, his pack would prefer he made himself scarce. “What else do you know? She’s single, you were saying.”
    “As far as I know , and self-employed. She’s got her own company. Wicked Incorporated.”
    “What does she do?”
    “Odd jobs. Specialty jobs. Kind of like you, as a matter of fact. She’s talent for hire. If you have a problem, be it a protection detail, surveillance, location of an artifact or person, she’ll do it, for a steep price.”
    “Is she any good?”
    “From what I hear? The best. Although, her methods aren’t always the nicest. She tends to have a heavy hand when it comes to questioning people. Or should I say she’s keen on threats and easy with the magic.”
    “Threats are an effective way of getting information. Nothing wrong with bending a few laws, breaking a few fingers , and dangling someone off a high balcony to get them to spill the beans.”
    A sound escaped Barry , a cross between a choke and a laugh. “Fuck me, I should have known you’d be the last person to think her tactics were too rough.”
    “Are you calling me a thug?”
    “If the brass knuckles fit.”
    “ Who needs those when a bare fist will do?” Ryker grinned and held up his weapon of choice before thumping it on the bar.
    “You are such an idiot.”
    “And you need to dump out this piss you call a beer and hand me a bottle of the real stuff.”
    “ You know, you’re really making me wish she could have turned you in a frog just so I could have thrown you in that radioactive pond and watched you run from those mutant flies,” Barry muttered as he handed over a frosty Bud.
    “ As if a few isotopes would hurt me. I come from solid stock.”
    “ I wonder what your mom would say if she heard that.”
    Ryker winced. The last time someone implied his mother was less than svelte, they spent a few days healing from the beating she gave them. Mother was a touch sensitive about her weight. “You’re getting off topic. I want to know more about this witch.”
    “Why? You’re not planning to see her again , are you? I think she made it pretty clear where you stood.”
    “ Can’t say as I blame her. I’m not exactly at my best.” Understatement. He currently looked like a homeless slob. The next time he ran into her, and he would, he’d make sure to make a better impression because for the first time since he’d left his parents’, he felt like smiling again. And he owed it all to one sassy witch.
    Like it or not, we will meet again. And next time, I’ ll be ready for her.

Chapter Four
    The brisk ride through the late night sky, the stars lighting her way as she flew on her bristle broom, did much to cool her anger. Alone, she couldn’t help but replay, with a snicker in her mind, how she’d dumped the cocky shifter on his ass. The look on his face? Priceless.
    Men were all the same. A lways assuming