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Ethan needed to feel some pain. He needed to know they meant business.
    He needed to know he had caused the death of innocents.
     
    Two days after her encounter with Ethan, Kayla eased her way past the entrance of Secret Sins—one of seven men’s clubs Ethan owned. And this one happened to be where the last murder victim had worked.
    Coming there had been a tough decision, but a fourth woman had died the night before, and she couldn’t hide the situation from the Council much longer. The police had kept this under wraps, but there were those in the paranormal world that knew who was responsible. It’s how Kayla had found out. And if the Council found out she knew about this and didn’t tell them, she’d be in hot water. Yet, she still felt her best path for solving this was Ethan. The Council would work against him, not with him.
    But she couldn’t hold out forever in silence. She had to stop the Brothers or request help from the Council. That meant she had to enlist Ethan’s help and do it fast. So she had come up with a plan. And that plan had led her to Secret Sins.
    Kayla had been prepared for how the club would affect her. Already, she could feel the lust around her: pressing on her mental barriers; burning for recognition and attention; burning to take control she wasn’t willing to give. Absorbing and controlling the emotions around her were part of being a Watcher. Often, in battle, the malice of those around her became fuel for her own blows, for her own ability to defend against that which would destroy her.
    And though she knew coming there, being surrounded by so much lust, would beat on her defenses, she also knew she had no choice. Her first meeting with Ethan had gotten her nowhere fast, and after working her underground resources, she was quite certain one of his two top security men had betrayed him to the Brothers, intending to help them take down Ethan.
    If she got up close and personal with Ethan’s security staff, she’d know which one was bad. She’d feel the malice. Then, she could go to Ethan and they could use that person to lead them to the Brothers’ main operation.
    A wall of mirrors behind the cash register captured her eyes, and she barely recognized herself. Dressed in a short black skirt and a skintight tank with a deep V, she’d completed the outfit with “fuck me” spike heels, a long blond wig, smoky eyes, and glossy red lips. She looked like a walking invitation.
    Kayla smiled flirtatiously at the brawny male taking her money and looking at her with more than a little interest, noting the lack of malice in him. He wasn’t who she sought. She’d know the enemy when she found him. She’d sense the danger, sense the bad intentions.
    And she’d find him, whoever he was.
    No doubt, a female alone in a men’s club would draw attention. Which was what she was counting on; the more the better. That would make it easier to find who she sought.
    Rounding the corner, Kayla entered the main club, dim lights and sultry music closing in around her, waves of lust and desire rushing at her like a wave crashing into her body and mind. Kayla worked to block out the emotions flogging her from every direction. She drew on her training, on her discipline.
    Her eyes went to the stage as heat rushed through her limbs, lust becoming a second skin. Topless women worked the horseshoe-shaped stage, moving to the beat of the sexy song, teasing the men who gathered nearby. And Lord help her, she could feel the power they felt. Feel the arousal of knowing those men were hard and hot because of the way the woman looked, the way they moved.
    Kayla forced herself to inhale and focus on blocking out the environment, exhaling as she regained a bit of her composure. Again, she repeated her actions. Inhaling. Exhaling. Drawing on her well-practiced mental control.
    Though she wasn’t a drinker, one seemed in order now. Kayla needed to dull the impact of the heat pounding at her. She eyed a bar in the back