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weapons. She’d had to learn boring, administrative shit, in addition to taking on the responsibility of leading, finding funding, and managing the operations … but a baby ward? Totally not in her plans.
    Although, she’d always wanted a family, and it seemed like a baby was going to fare better with Team Rogue to raise her than in the Sucubatti or Incubatti societies that viewed Halflings as flawed or sub-members. The five core members were half-sisters whose biological mother was one of their least favorite succubae, the chief of the Internal Affairs Bureau, who was not so affectionately known as Bio-Mom by the team.
    Zoey never thought twice about children, having spent her life without a real parental figure. Now with her blackouts and the world trying to track her down, she didn’t think she’d ever have the chance at a family or normal life.
    But Vikki’s baby might have a shot at a good life. Team Rogue was cleaning up the Cambion threat and Vikki was strong enough to protect her child from anything. Vikki also wasn’t suffering the blackouts Zoey experienced.
    What if I hurt her one day? Cold fear sank into Zoey’s stomach. She had no control over her episodes. What happened if Vikki confronted her while she was in blackout mode? She’d already killed a full-blooded incubus and done severe damage to Aiden.
    She’d never risk hurting her best friend or her child. It was one more problem Zoey had to solve on two hours of sleep a night.
    “I’ll help you take care of her, V,” she said. “But your timing really sucks.”
    “It wasn’t planned! Kinda like your little jaunts to kill shit and wake up with no memory.”
    Zoey’s thoughts drifted back to how she ended up some place she didn’t recall going. Every other time, she’d killed Cambions. It was no surprise, given that’s what she did for a living.
    Facing a super-incubus like Aiden was different. One of them could’ve ended up dead, and there was a grim possibility it would’ve been her. She didn’t mind the fight, but she minded not being in control of herself.
    “Drive faster, V,” she said, anxious to be back to somewhere somewhat safe. With Aiden and a succubus snooping around, her hideout was compromised. It was only a matter of time before those watching her decided to act. “We need to make plans to move again.”
    “Yep,” Vikki said. “We’ll get rid of Aiden and disappear.”
    Zoey leaned back and rubbed her face. Life had become so much harder since she left the Sucubatti. She didn’t expect doing the right thing – killing Cambions – to be so complex, or for Olivia to pull her mind into blackouts when they’d completely removed themselves from her influence.
    Nothing was going right and now, Vikki was pregnant. Zoey wanted to scream and shred a herd of Cambions. Instead, she sank back into impotent emotion and stared at Aiden, disturbed by how much he resembled Declan.
     
     

Chapter Two: Hunted
     
    Olivia, Chief of the Internal Affairs Bureau for the Sucubatti, knelt gracefully next to the puddle that gleamed red-black in the moonlight in the shadow of the Washington Memorial. The full succubus studied the blood with blue eyes that glimmered almost silver in the night. The blood was less than an hour old, with one pool radiating succubus magic while the other pulsed with incubus sex energy. She tossed her hair over one shoulder and nibbled a plump lip, troubled.
    “What took so long tonight?” she purred at the Cambion leader, Paul, who stood off to the side.
    “If you could control your Halflings, I wouldn’t be scrambling to find them,” he replied. The strongest and oldest of the Cambions, Paul’s ability to identify, track, and locate Zoey was the key to capturing the half-succubus whose blackouts were growing more frequent. Aware of what made Team Rogue members special, he also knew he and his fellow Cambions were the only ones capable of finding them by following the trail of sex magic.
    “Yes, well,