BREN
“Bad news.” That was my greeting from Hawk the second I walked into work, as she was holding out my coffee.
I took a breath, just inhaling and had to decline. “Not today.” I eyed her warily as she frowned before handing off the coffee to Bonbon. Yeah, that’d been a shock to me, too, when we learned our new employee had passed her test. She was a certified bounty hunter, and I’d never been more terrified in my life, for the bail jumps.
“And what’s the bad news?”
“We got a Red Demon on the boards today.”
I groaned. That meant I was staying in the office, and seriously, not today. I was needing some action.
“But,” she piped up, smiling, and after working with Hawk for this last year, that smile never got old. She was my second or third type of family. I didn’t want to decipher t
