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stepped forward but stopped when the girl put her hand on his arm. He looked back at her, eyebrows furrowed in question. She moved so her back was to Pete, her head close to Roman’s. Pete couldn’t hear what she said, but whatever it was, Roman didn’t like it. His jaw worked as he stared down at her like he wanted to argue. Resigned, he nodded once before looking back at Pete.
    “Any trouble and I’ll be back in a second, and you, mate, will be dead. Understand? X, keep your gun ready.”
    Pete just looked at him, unmoving. Weapon X reached for one of her pistols holstered beneath her arm, clicking off the safety loudly in the small space. Then Ludwig’s second in command turned sharply and left, leaving the two of them alone. Pete watched her back as she seemed to take a moment to collect herself. Then she turned to face him with those eyes. He opened his mouth to speak, but stopped as she held up a hand.
    “Don’t,” she said. Her voice was soft and musical. Completely at odds with her appearance, and reputation. “If you tell anyone what you know,” she continued, “you’ll die. Do you understand me? If not by my hand, by another’s. This isn’t a game. There are consequences for those who know too much, and I really don’t think you’d like them.”
    Pete laughed. “I get it,” he said. “Just tell me, how do you do it? I’ve never heard one rumour about you being a girl.”
    “That’s because those who know, who shouldn’t know, are disposed of. It would be smart of you to remember that.”
    “Noted,” he replied dryly.
    She narrowed her gaze at him, silent for a moment before saying, “tell me how you’re doing it.”
    “Doing what?” he asked.
    She took a step closer, the hand holding the gun twitching at her side. “You know what,” she said. “Tell me how you’re doing it.”
    He didn’t think about his next move, he just did it. Overthinking these things sometimes complicated it, so instead he acted on impulse. One second they were glaring at each other, and the next he had her pinned to the ground beneath him, her gun skidding across the floor. His hand instantly moved to cover her mouth as he used his bodyweight to restrain her. There was no way someone as small as she was could over power him.
    “You’re not so big and bad when you don’t have your little ability, are you?” he said in her ear. He pulled back, her eyes burning into him with rage. “How easily the infamous Weapon X is taken down, and there’s no one here to save her .” He reached down with his other hand, quickly robbing her of the rest of her weapons. “No more blowing off people’s heads today.”
    She struggled under him, but he just pushed her harder into the tile floor. He slid the guns to the far wall, well out of reach. “That’s better,” he said. He looked down at her furious, blue eyes and chuckled. Lifting his chest up a bit, he looked her over until he saw what he wanted. With one fast move, he ripped her hood off. She sucked in air, but his hand was covering her mouth again before she could get out a scream.
    Bloody hell. She was beautiful.
    He’d seen a lot of pretty girls in his life. Bridgette was often called beautiful by all the boys, and even Danielle was attractive. But this girl…she was quite possibly the most gorgeous girl he’d ever seen. Long, black hair fanned out around her head. Her skin was smooth, pale porcelain. Dark lashes framed those eyes set beneath perfectly arched brows. Pete realized he was staring at her like an idiot, mouth open and everything, as she seethed beneath him.
    “I’m going to let my hand up so we can have a chat, and you are not going to scream. Deal?”
    Her eyes narrowed to slits. For some reason that made him chuckle which seemed to only make her more angry.
    “It’s the only way you’re going to get me to talk, so you don’t have much choice. I could kill you right now if I wanted to.” Not that he would, damn him. Part of him