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“With her?”
    “Oh, you must have me mixed up with Casa-fucking-nova. Brother, I need a drink, so fucking deal .”
    Knox lifted a heavy hand and tapped beneath my chin with a finger. “See ya, dollface.”
    I leaned forward, whispering so he could hear. “Watch over my friend.”

Chapter 4
     
    The cold amber drink slid down his throat and lit a fire in his belly. Knox scooped a handful of peanuts in his palm and crunched on them, dusting the salt from his fingertips.
    He drove a long way to talk to Adam about the Trinity files—a private database owned by the agency he works for—that revealed a world of unexplainable shit. Then, he discovers his buddy is one of them. Talk about kicking a guy in the balls. That was the reason Adam wanted him to come up to Cognito.
    Adam and Knox went on a number of dangerous assignments. In their line of work, you just assumed you were the good guy. Most jobs were for information: files, computers, and sometimes the occasional object. They did what they were told, and didn’t ask questions. That included hits.
    Months ago, Knox’s partner hacked the Trinity files and came across a list of names. A background check found nothing out of the ordinary, so when one of the names showed up for his next assignment, Knox took a detour to Texas without his team to find Zoë Merrick. They never went after women, and this order was a hit. That’s when he found out Zoë was missing—which would have been fine with him, had he not run into Adam at her apartment. Adam wasn’t talking, and while that should have pissed him off, Knox owed him. They both agreed it was in Adam’s best interest to skip town while his team ran their investigation. Knox erased prints Adam left behind in Zoë’s apartment, and searched his property.
    Towards the end of his service, Adam confessed he no longer felt that what they were doing was for a good cause. Knox stayed true and stayed in. Doubt was a plague that ravaged his conscience now that the facts were bubbling to the surface. They saw some weird things in their time, and as it turns out, had been treading in the world of Breed for years. The Trinity files were an inside database for the higher-ups only. It broke down different supernaturals, and a few names listed were ones they had taken out.
    Adam fell off the earth, but after an unexpected phone call, Knox drove up and they shared information. Finding out Zoë was Silver took him by surprise, but he needed a good slap in the face to wake the fuck up from his purpose in life.
    Knox curled his hand around the chilled glass and peered over his shoulder to check on the girl.
    He had no shame admitting he would rather nail a woman than date her. He didn’t grow up with a mother, sister, or any woman in his life. His father had a fetish for cheap women that rubbed off on him. Knox wasn’t approachable, and at the end of the night, he rarely went home with a woman on his arm.
    Her body was like sunshine—warm and intense—something he wanted to soak in with all his senses. Those wide eyes reminded him of azure skies along the southern coastline. Her hips were lush and curvy, leaving everything to the imagination with the layers of clothing she wore. Blond waves of hair spilled across her shoulders like particles of light. He knew she was a woman with class—real class—nothing like the women who came from wealth, pretending they were the very definition of it. Sunny was untouchable.
    Knox’s chin touched his shoulder as he looked over it. A short waiter with a long goatee pocketed a few bills left beneath Sunny’s glass. His heart slammed to a stop when he saw the empty booth.
    “Shit,” he muttered, throwing his heavy boots on the floor. He twisted around and caught a glimpse of her outside, running by the window. Knox had a choice, and while he could have let her go, that’s not how it went down.
    He kept a safe distance behind, cursing himself as he stayed in the shadows.
    Sunny shielded