Yes, the main character, and all other consequential characters, are of legal age and older.
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"Are you serious about this?" I asked Boss as I paced through his room, my footfalls heavy with my anxiety. He watched me with those dark blue eyes of his, partially hidden behind the fall of his dark blond bangs. Boss was perpetually in need of a trim, but I never minded that. The shadows in the room always played lovingly across his masculine features, the curtain of his hair casting even deeper shadows over his eyes, giving him that rugged, bad-boy look. And Boss was always good at living up to that image. But no matter how wet my panties got from his watching me, it couldn't pull my mind away from what he expected me to do. "How could you do this? Especially some place like that."
"Look, War," Boss started, voice deep and calm, "we need one of our own inside that place and you're the only one who—"
"Is this because I slipped up on that last fucking mission? You're throwing me to the wolves!"
He kept his level gaze on me, so blasé, so unfazed. There were reasons why he was in charge and I wasn't. I could never fully pull off that cloyed facade in the face of a tempest. "As I was saying, you're the only one who can blend in with them." And then he stepped toward me, his movements like a stalking beast, such contained power in that swaggering stride. His six-and-a-half towered over my five-four and as he brought his hand up to cup my cheek, his palm nearly engulfed the whole side of my face.
I traced my top lip with the tip of my tongue. "Oh," was all I could think to say at that point. When he eyed my lips like that, it pushed a lot of my thoughts out of my head and all I could think of was his lips on mine, his lips on my breasts, his lips between my legs. Mine between his.
He began lowering his face to mine, as he spoke his breath feathered across my lips. "You will do this mission to the best of your abilities, War." I hummed an agreement and he leaned closer. "And you will do anything it takes to get through it." Another humming agreement, another inch closer. "And you will do it with the help of Nathaniel as the SEMI."
I hummed— I stopped him. "Wait, what?" I pushed at his shoulders, shoving him from me. My extra strength was the only reason he gave way. "What do you mean Nathaniel is the SEMI?"
There was a small twitch at the corner of his luscious lips, as though Boss were laughing at me. "We needed to do recon and he was already in position. The only thing now is that he can't get any closer to the target without risk of exposure, or in the least, physical threat. It wouldn't do to have your only possible backup working at less than peak performance."
SEMI was an acronym for Sanctioned Enemy Movement Informant. They were our versions of moles. The only thing was that the prey we hunted could tell with less than a glance if someone was one of their kind or not. Unlike the CIA who can scruff up an agent and send him in to the lion's den, if we tried sending in one of Boss's men, they would get eaten by the lion, literally. Then again, it is a tough job trying to spy on Vampires. In order to not lose a SEMI beneath a pair of fangs, your SEMI needed to have a pair of their own. And finding a Vampire willing to spy for Hunters is difficult, bordering on impossible.
So why would this Nathaniel be a SEMI? Because his only real family left, his cousin, was a Huntress named Serenity. Despite having not seen her in over a decade, he would do just about anything for her. And Boss had a knack for praying off of others' weaknesses to get what he wanted. As he did with me and his lean-too-close move just now. I clearly have a weakness for sex. Not my fault, mind you. It's just my nature.
Back to the issue at hand. Boss needed a certain school to be entered into with caution and his gut told him he was on a time limit.
"I need you to get close to the target. Your objective is both distraction and information gathering. Boss, whose real name was Mike, had his fit butt braced casually against the edge of his desk as he faced me. He turned at the waist and leaned back to grab a folder off the other side of the massive ornate desk, his molded-to-perfection shirt showing off every dip and ripple of muscle in his torso.
A small sigh of appreciation slipped from my lips.
When he faced me again, he held out the folder and I took it. Inside was picture of a grown teen paper-clipped to the pages of information on him. He was Asian in orientation, translucent pearly skin flawless. His features were liked marble carved to perfection. No doubt he was a Born Vampire. Only Born Vampires had that sort of unearthly beauty to them. Turned Vampires—those made from humans—tended to look more pasty, almost with an undertone of gray, and they were never flawless. Mostly, Turned Vampires were used as grunts, slaves to the Purebreeds—Born Vampires of the highest aristocracy. By the arrogance of the boy's eyes, the slightest sneering lift of his upper lip, I would say the picture I was looking at was a Purebreed. He was of average height—Asians did tend to be smaller scales, even Vampires. His body was fit, muscles lean and wiry. His hair was a deep black, like it's been swallowing shadows since the day he was born.
Everything about him was a panty-dropper, but it was his eyes that were most alluring. Large and dark, nearly as black as his hair, the corners pinched in a slight tilt. Japanese eyes.