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too damned early for a k

d showered. His coffee w

ven had a chance to

hings in order whenever

a lot

his side holster, he m

threat awaited outside,

mal workday upheaval. A

Agency, he'd made a few

he ones he watched out

e as a teenager

, firm though not ma

direct knock without po

ioning how he knew. His

il

the narrow window nex

essed in jeans and a light

e'd been on a few operat

o-ahead to mo

her black hair, brown

casian parents, stared

was a force to be reckon

e

as usually the one b

as he leaned against

er, implacable expressi

g the land outside, giv

elied by the homes along

w

ssume this isn't life or

ared up at

lot in the past few mont

omething from him, as

eth

ips thinning, her gaze sl

fore jerk

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damned

u the first cup of cof

to argue over her pla

ome of the more dangerou

s were kept quiet. They

themselves. Chelsea was

worked in an assistant c

nd people like nobody's

isted with the Agency an

might face and ensured

good friend because

part of operations, he'd

at he couldn't put her in

as far mor

into the kitchen, he r

e round table that sat in

light on if

ghts on in the place si

e as possible. It was a p

he owned. Main

on screen set in the fr

had time yet to turn it

after an

," she as

improved over the pas

il realizing his twin, Gi

nce of the Primal Benga

traits Cullen possessed,

ot enough t

efore we start, minx."

was beginning to bother

fing

er wasn't exactly wha

are without t

usement in her

ell was up

e counter and crossing

she looked so sad, not an

from her, and he could

the coffeemaker when i

regard her. She wasn't f

ast nervous as she usua

another position she co

f the office and to put h

ma

Breed Underground, she

juvenile and adult Breed

st ahead of the Geneti

searching

ne that, but he did

t disqualify her as a m

tes, so he ground his tee

r cousins over it

r covert work, too inno

in the

, lowering the cup and f

you come up with this

k will s

s and if he wasn't mis

hough-were

ed? Setting his coffee a

been done to bring

ioned gently. "What

pulled back the front

er from inside it and slo

e need to growl. One of

'd heard come from his

n

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hat simple piece o

fted to her

this, Chelsea," he sig

k about

to talk

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mned if he

om the Agency," she tol

dete

. By God, she actually

leave the Agency. That s

at it, gla

uld burst into flames a

along with

fting his head, he dir

he me

or look away. Not one

minance. Hell, she di

t going to work

you run it?" he snapp

you did, 'Commander' wou

instead

though they had been,

ck down. She had to

eed. But I never wanted

glorified running girl for

pening, so it'

surge of anger at once

trat

ime," he began, his

time to give it, Cull

hand out to him before d

ust tim

epped closer, though s

ware he was coming clos

bout to get up cl

time I go. That I find

e going first to where h

ow suddenly

woman's sound, one fille

prehension as he swung

feel the erection he had

ny lo

parted; her eyes, lik

ning, then turning slu

rising and falling fast

ll was wron