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team, but they were part of an elite group, and questions didn’t come up about the targets they were given.

    By now, he and his team knew the three people very well.   They had been tracking them for two and a half weeks. Two men, one lady.   The men were obviously protection of some type.   They seemed remarkably young and his team had never seen them with any weapons on their persons.   Twice they had passed by the three in groups of two and three, to see their reactions.

    Minimal.

    Their main target was the takedown of the lady.   She was causing issues as the conduit for communications between TQB and those in DC that their country needed to persuade.   Too often, a diplomat would arrive and potentially get a sympathetic ear only to have this team show up soon after and change their mind.

    Now, it was time to take out the problem.

    Hu checked his men’s equipment and clothes.   They all wore different types of suits.   All had knives secreted about their bodies and pistols.

    He doubted they would need to do anything with the pistols.   The two men were going to have the focus of his three men, and he would focus on the girl.

    He watched one of the monitors and found his targets coming down Ridge Street and signaled his team.   The van would follow on an adjacent street.   Their exit strategy was down an alley, into the van and disappear into the night.

    They shut off their electronics, and he cracked the door.  

    It was time to go.

    —

    Scottie was walking far behind the group ahead of him.   His job was typically to trail Matthew, Rickie, and Jennifer whenever they were moving from place to place.   He liked his job, and he liked this group.   Getting to know Matthew and Rickie was a pleasure.   Both were one of the first Werewolves that had joined the Queen’s group, and they were a good group.   Rickie was constantly joking around, and he had even been able to get the normally quiet and easygoing Matthew to crack a smile and joke around.   Jennifer had become more and more accustomed to her little group.

    Which was good, because there was no way she was going to be let off the leash without them.

    She even had a date one time, with them along sitting at the next table over.   She threw a little tantrum at that time until she spoke to Jakob, her boss.   He told her in no uncertain terms what could happen and might happen to her if she went anywhere without them.  

    Then Colorado happened, and she used her guys as a security blanket at night for two weeks.

    Scottie was watching two blocks ahead of the three when he noticed four men coming around a corner.   They looked just fine, but something about their walk, their spacing… something. Something seemed to at least suggest caution to the ex-marine.   He coughed twice and then mentioned ‘four ahead’ in the middle of the coughing fit.  

    No humans would understand a word he said.   For the two Queen’s Guardians, it was child's play.   He noticed Matthew give him a quick sign by scratching over his shoulder.   Two seconds later, Jennifer stopped walking and stepped a little closer to the street, Matthew and Rickie took up positions to protect her.  

    Scottie kept walking towards them, placing a hand inside his pocket.

    He had to depend that his instincts were right.

    Scottie smiled as he saw Rickie start pantomiming a female with a broken shoe as he hopped in a quick circle in place.   Rickie arrived back at his starting point with at least fifteen feet to spare before the group arrived, coming from the other direction.  

    Scottie continued looking past everyone, but could see that one of the men spoke to the group, and one guy in the front looked in his direction and gave a small nod of his head.

    “It’s going down, boys,” Scottie mentioned as he gripped the butt of his pistol.

    Damned, even while paying attention to his own mark, Scottie was impressed with the speed and precision of the three men left.