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Kella stumbled forward behind the building two streets over from the warehouse. She bit back the groan of pain that ran through her head and chest. She found her target, but he turned out to be more resourceful than she had anticipated.
They fought. Normally that would not have been much of an issue, but he used moves that she had never encountered before. She also did not see who struck her from behind. If Tallei had witnessed the fight, she would have told Kella she deserved to die for not being better prepared.
All Kella knew was that she should have killed the strange man instead of trying to capture him. The next time she found him, she would. Tallei had said ‘dead or alive’. The Legion Director might prefer the male alive, but now that Kella knew there was more than one of them,
