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since it was still early, Liam and Mal were the only two people in the VIP room. Later the brotherhood would fill this room, and members would flood the main clubroom. The air would be pungent with the scent of fine cigars, and the sound of ice tingling in highball glasses would fill the air. Most weekends he made the rounds through the members’ area, often finding a woman to share his bed that night.
    Tonight, that wasn’t going to happen.
    After having Christina in his arms only two nights ago, he knew he would never again be inclined to bed another woman, not even for the pleasure of forgetting.
    “Who’s winning?” Liam asked, nodding at the chessboard.
    Mal sighed as he picked up his queen and rolled her between his fingers. “I suppose that depends on what qualifies as a win.”
    “Considering you’re playing yourself, that’s not the answer I expected.”
    Mal put the queen back down, taking care not to look at his friend’s face. “I’ve been playing by myself for a long damn time, Liam.”
    “Yeah,” Liam said softy. “I guess you have.”
    Mal looked up, then took a long sip of Glenlivet as he studied his friend. Liam’s broad shoulders and well-muscled body filled the chair, but equally compelling was his commanding presence. Liam was a man who knew what he want, and didn’t stop until he got it.
    Mal and Liam were like brothers and had been for millennia. Hell, since before they’d left home to come here, chasing the bad guys across time and space like goddamn cowboys. And now here they both were, co-leaders of the Phoenix Brotherhood, a group of immortal warriors headquartered in New York, but scattered across the globe. Still chasing the bad guys. Still trying to put right what had gotten fucked up so many centuries ago.
    He almost laughed. Put like that, it sounded like the plot of a goddamn James Cameron movie.
    Liam pulled out his phone and placed it on the table. “Just heard from Raine.”
    Interested, Mal leaned back in the leather arm chair. Mal and Raine had been friends since their training days, but that friendship rose to a new level when they’d both lost their mates as a result of the shit storm that had gone down when they’d crashed in this dimension. Livia, thrust back into the rift between dimensions. Christina, an unwilling host for a horrific and unstable weapon.
    Both men had been desperately lonely, their pain acting almost like a bond. But recently Raine had learned that Livia’s essence hadn’t been catapulted out of this world after all. Instead, it had been absorbed into a human, and after all these years, Raine had once again found his mate’s essence in the body and soul of Callie Sinclair.
    And though Mal was happy for his friend—truly happy—he couldn’t deny that he was jealous as fuck. Because he was never getting Christina back. Not like that. Maybe he’d given her a reprieve—letting her live her life and go to her rehearsals and take her jogs in Central Park and go out for sushi with the friend she’d moved in with, because oh yes, he’d been watching her—but that was just time, and time was running out. She was a walking bomb about to go supernova, and she didn’t even know it. And sooner—not later—he was going to have to man up and pull the damn trigger.
    Unless…
    “Mal?” Liam’s voice was steady, but Mal could hear the concern. And the question.
    “Thinking. Sorry.” He rubbed his chin, the stubble scratching his palm and reminding him that he hadn’t shaved in days. Not since seeing Christina had thrown his life completely off-kilter. He sucked in air and ordered himself to get his shit together. “Is Raine on his way here?”
    Liam nodded. “They’re coming in before they go celebrate. Callie’s now a New York County Assistant District Attorney.”
    “That’s excellent.” Before coming to New York to be with her ailing father, Callie had been a lawyer in Texas. Once she and Raine found each other, though, she’d taken