Chapter 364: Monday. Aegis Group Office, Seattle, Washington.

ALEC PULLED OUT A chair for Vara and held it while she sat with her coffee and bagel.

The instructions for this morning had them meeting in the central command room. The space was the second secure room in the building, the other being Zain's personal office. From this room they could handle any number of sensitive tasks, like facial recognition and real-time digital tracking. But most of all, for this morning's purposes, their communication feed was encrypted. Someone was joining them remotely and Alec was curious who that person might be.

Today was going to be a long day of figuring out how the hell they were going to handle this threat. Someone was after his girl and he wasn't going to let that happen on his watch.

What was worse, there would be people out there who would think she was Djinn even once this blew over. That came with its own set of dangers they'd have to sort out.

For now, the Russian mob boss and whatever the hell the Russian intelligence community was up to was