Page 45 of Secret Redemption

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Zack was sipping a coffee when Jack walked in, followed by his team. All the Eidolon men and one woman were dressed in black. They looked deadly and fucking terrifying. Zack knew that it wasn’t just an act. They were all as deadly as they looked, especially Jack.

He was a good man, one of the best, but he didn’t have a sense of humour, and he was all work. But Zack also knew he would die for his team, and never asked more of them than he was willing to do himself.

Zack stood and approached, his hand outstretched, “Good to see you, Jack.”

Jack shook his hand and returned the greeting. “You too!”

“Sit. We’re just waiting on Zenobi,” Zack said and saw Jack turn his nose up, which was unlike him.

Everyone was chatting when Roz and her girls walked in as if they owned the place. Roz stopped short, her girls automatically standing behind her. Her gaze was on Kanan, intense and cold.

Zack felt electricity singe the air before a bellow erupted from his friend.

“You have to be fucking joking me!” Kanan shouted, causing the room to go silent.

“Nice to see you too, lover,” Roz smirked.

“Do I want to know?” Zack asked.

“Nothing to know. K and I had some fun, and then it was done.”

“The fuck you say, Kat!” Kanan yelled, and stepped towards her, causing her girls to step in front of her. K looked at the deadly looking knives in their hands and stopped. He didn’t back down though, but moved slowly towards them, “You say what you want, but we both know the truth, Kitten.”

Roz paled a little and stepped through her girls coming nose to nose with Kanan. “Don’t fucking call me Kitten,” she snarled.

“Fine, Kat,” he hissed.

“And we both know that’s not my name either.”

“You will be Kitten to me until the day I die, woman!”

“Don’t tempt me!” Roz quipped, and then turned on her heel, her hair flicking K in the face as she did.

“Wow, that was hot. I need a cigarette!” laughed Liam, and everyone laughed as well, except for Kanan, Roz, and Zack.

Just what we needed, more fucking drama.

The meeting was mundane after that, except when Zack told Kanan he was partnering Roz for the ball.

“No pissing way!”

“What’s the matter, K, scared?” she challenged.

“Of you? Ha, never. Fine if you want an excuse to dance in my arms again who am I to deny you?”

“Enough!” Zack shouted angrily and stood, hands on the desk as he leant towards Roz and Kanan. “This is a serious fucking mission, and lives are on the line, lives of people we love, so rein it in or fuck off out my conference room.” He waited a bit, and nobody moved.

“Good,” he said and sat back down. “Now that is all sorted, do we have any updates?”

“I’m getting more and more intel on Walter Hamilton, and we think he may have had contact with Elliot Henderson of Omega Pharmaceuticals,” Jack replied.

“Any other links to the Divine Watchers?” Zack asked.

“No.”

“He does have a penchant for younger women though, and when I say young, I mean barely legal,” Roz answered.