Seven Months Later...
Maisie
Someone was watching me.
Eight tables down, left corner, scarred cheek, hard eyes. From the scars I noticed on his fingers and the way he adjusted constantly to keep what he had under his sleeve hidden, it had to be a knife. Or a gun.
Assassin.
He didn’t know I had noticed him since he walked in. Even if I hadn’t trained my senses and instincts hard enough to detect it, his scent would’ve given him away. In a bar full of human men, rogue stunk.
"Hey, Lis," Mandy, the other waitress I worked the counter with during my afternoon shifts, said, grabbing two bottles as she headed upstairs. "Heads up. It’s the old man again. Maybe give him your number or something?"
I made a face, but plastered a smile on my face as the grubby man who hadn’t stopped staring at my chest all evening finally walked up the courage to approach me.
I thought it was a bad time. They had found me again. I was going to have to leave tonight.
Shit. I really, really liked this bar.
"What can I get you, buddy?"
His eyes remained firmly on my breasts. "Jameson. Neat." He licked his lips. "You new around here, sweetheart?"
I was. A month old, actually. It was the longest I had stayed in one place since Germany. And it was the only place that paid a woman with no means of identification, valid credentials or a past working experience high enough to live off the streets. Plus, it came with accommodation.
It didn’t seem like much, but if you consider the fact that my first month out of the hospital, I was scrubbing gum off the communal toilet of a club, and sneaking back into said club’s back room to sleep, this was a pretty great upgrade.
"I am," I said with a cheerful smile, giving him my back while I stole another glance at the rogue. He had a phone to his ear. I let my Lycan listen for me while I shuffled through the fridge and I heard him rattle off the address to someone.
Great. Reinforcements.
"What’s a dainty thing like you doing in a shack like this?" the man by the counter asked.
Well, wasn’t that the question of the year?
Maisie Adams, ex-princess, ex-mate, murderess, adultress, thief, and whatever new title they liked to call me these days, was on the run. On average, I got six assassination attempts per week. On a good week, five. Only a bad one, about twice that amount.
The bounty on my head was now five times its original score, or so I had heard from the last man who tried to strangle me to death in the last boutique I had worked in.
Well, he didn’t exactly succeed.
But the boutique didn’t exactly survive the attack, either. Which meant I had to ’settle’ the owner before she could turn me in to the cops for destruction of personal property—I was trying not to die—and the cops would have been quite pleased to realize just who they had in their custody, seeing as everyone and their mother knew what I looked like, no thanks to the posters in every town, city and country the Queen could sink her claws into.

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