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Chapter 1
The palatial villa two hours outside Rohts glowed fro the circular drive out front, where half a dozen sleek sports cars were parked on the cobbled stones
Froe point on a tree-studded hill five hundred yards away, Ettore Selvaggio watched as a beautiful red Ferrari rolled up to the villa and took its place between a silver Bugatti Veyron and a blue Pagani Huayra Add in the pair of Lahinis, the Maserati, and another Ferrari, and there ell over ten million dollars’ of automotive luxury parked outside Vito Massioni’s mansion Plus a collection of vehicles worth twice that a-dealing Breedelse, Massioni and his criminal associates had i your soul to Opus Nostrum pays well," he muttered into the wireless mic that linked hi e"
The deep gravel voice of his coht was no exception Not that Savage actually expected thewarrior to appreciate the fleet of fine Italianto Massioni and his cohorts
And not that it mattered, anyway
In a few minutes, the cars, thebut ash and sg proe hunkered down to watch the coes have been delivered and the last party guest just arrived We’re good to go"
"You collected the receipt?"
"Right here inreferenced
Twenty e arrived at his observation position on the hill, he’d been inside Massioni’s villa on a covert solo et According to intel newly obtained by the Order’s headquarters in Washington, DC, Vito Massioni was the European distributor of a dangerous narcotic that turned otherwise law-abiding Breed va with the street naon was said to be even more powerful than its predecessor, Crimson, which had cost countless Breed and huo Now, thanks to Massioni and his collusion with the terror group, Opus Nostruain in the States and across Europe, creating panic a an already anxious human public As leader of the Order, Lucan Thorne had made it clear that he wanted the problee was nment It had been a serendipitous bonus to learn that Massioni had called a private rab and stealth assassination--one of e his nickname in the Order--the scope of the job had expanded to mass elih firepower to level an entire city block were now planted around Massioni’s villa All Savage had to do was set them off by remote detonator and Opus would lose yet another key ally The Order wasn’t about to rest until the entire organization was dismantled, the cabal of e lifted his field glasses to his eyes and peered at the h his vision as one of the Breed was superhuman, the lenses allowed hirand salon where Massioni and his athered
The seven Breed reeted one another with a lot of laughter and back patting, a lot of ingratiating s for the dark-haired, hawk-nosed Vito Massioni froon dealer and his cronies had been handsoue attacks the past few nights Savage couldn’t wait to send theht it up at your ready," Trygg advised
Savage s away fro place inside the mansion, he reached to retrieve the re a target’s demise, but it was hard not to take soht
He brought the field glasses back up to his face--just in time to see that a woman had entered the roo to her slender body like liquid silk The neckline plunged low in front, the slit in the skirt slicing high up her leg, baring a lot of crea step she took toward Massioni
What the fuck?
Savage hadn’t realized there was a female in the mansion Not that he feltlike Massioni And not that it should stop hi the button on the detonator But still…
His thuer
"Unidentified female on the premises," he g said Then he ht as well have been a histle, co from the eternally inscrutable warrior
Yeah, the ferowl at the sight of all those slender curves poured into a colu avoided blondes--for personal reasons of his own--but everything asoline
He stared through the lenses, watching as every head in the room turned to look at her as she approached Massioni As soon as she was close enough, the vampire’s beefy arhly against hirinned and chuckled
More than one of the Breed athered in the room wore an expression of unabashed lust as their boss crudely cupped the young woust spiked through Savage’s blood at Massioni’sof the wo said
"No, there wasn’t" Savage’s reply was clipped, irritation combined with this unwanted element of surprise "The report out of DC specifically stated that Massioni is unmated, so who the fuck is she?"