One of the Fox's inner circle was balls-deep inside a Yoshiwara courtesan.
I checked the back of the room.
His gun sat on a chair.
I put my view back to him.
His pants were around his ankles, and he had absolutely no idea that twenty armed men—his enemies—were standing on the other side of the glass watching him fuck.
He was currently vulnerable.
Exposed.
Useless.
“Good call on the entrance, Hiroko." Behind me, I felt the shift.
Shoulders dropping.
Breathing slowing.
The Claws had come down that elevator expecting death, and instead they'd found a man with his pants around his ankles and his gun across the room.
I could feel the relief spreading through the group like a slow exhale.
That was good, but it wasn’t time to celebrate just yet. Relief made men careless in war.
I looked at the Claws. "Check the rooms. Tell me what you see."
The Claws spread out to other glass walls and scanned the rooms with the trained eyes of men who knew how to find a target in any setting—even one dripping in sex and red light.
I went over to the glass that Hiro stood in front of.
“Hmmm.”
Hiro looked at me. “Interesting sight. Isn’t it?”
“It is.” Two women were on their knees in front of a man sitting in a low chair. One had her mouth around his cock, her head bobbing slow and deep while his fingers tangled in her hair. The other was between the first woman's thighs from behind, her tongue working while her hand slid up the man's inner leg.
His head was thrown back.
Mouth open.
Chest heaving.
And the brand on his neck wasn’t just a fox. This one had a crown.
Hiro winked at me. “We’ve found a commander.”
Reo gestured for us to come over. He was further down the hall, near a junction where two corridors met.
Before we reached him, I heard it — a moan that cut through the bass.
Hiro's lip curled. "It might not have been a smart idea for our father to pick a brothel district to hide out in. Too much wet pussy around keeps the men unfocused."
“Very unfocused.”
“Not one person is thinking of war, but then can you blame them?” Hiro winked again.
