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body parts behind for identification." The man across the table sw

lyn docks were ugly this time of night, dark water, rusted shipping containers, and men with guns pretending loyalty could be bou

this table looked nervous as they should. The Rivera crew had been skimming money from shipping routes tied to my company for months, thinking we

rossed, watching the room quietly. Most people underestimated Bonner be

oss," one of the ri

aped him. I watched his confidence collapse immediately afterward.

veryone turned instantly toward the noise to see a woman stumble inside, drenched from the rain, breathing har

exploded ou

ough the entrance behind her. Chaos swallowed the warehouse, and men

near stacked crates while rival

!" someon

should've irritated me, but my focus stayed on her, which was weird. She moved fast despi

flinched sharply. Then our eyes met across the warehouse, and something strange hit me direct

oking away from her. The man dropped instantly, but the woman just stared at

nner shout

bed a metal pipe from the floor and hurled it upward hard enough to crack the shooter across the face. The man

the

deeper into the warehouse toward the loading

? Whoever she was, I needed to find out. I

omeone shou

y at the name, t

rest

was sprinting through shadows, the next, I slammed her ag

sped s

hile the other braced beside her head. Up close

ere was dirt smeared across her cheek, and pani

"No answer."W

tantly outside while rain thundered against the

een. Another weird thing about the woman who burst through my warehouse meeting. And things get w

harper, she looks alarm

her pain exploding through my hand. "Fuck!"She bit me hard enough to draw b

ke fire racing through my veins. The woman stared at me in shock for one brief second

ces shouted o

the blood running down my hand. The bite burne

beside me inst

g dock where she disappear

nked once.

ng beneath the wound, and for some reason, the scent of rain and