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“Me too,” Raven agreed.

“No, I only tended to his wounds, not that it would have been any of your business if we had,” Colton said.

“Well, kind of since we’re sitting here waiting for you to come back,” Nate pointed out.

Colton laughed, then gestured to the drinks in everyone’s hands. “I see you helped yourselves.”

Nathan nodded and took a sip of the papaya juice. “You’re out of juice.”

“Now I am, yeah.” He sat down on the loveseat along with Ze.

“So, what else do you know about this Shadow Fox person, male, female, white, black, what?” Raven asked.

“He’s hot, that’s for sure,” Nathan said.

Colton’s eyes widened and his head snapped to his brother. “You’ve met him?”

Nathan nodded. “Remember that job I had a year ago in Orlando?”

Colton nodded. “Yeah, the one for that investment banker?”

“Yeah, that one. I’m not sure if you remember how that went down.”

“The job was done by the time you got there?” Colton speculated, because he remembered the discrepancy that went down when it came to the payment.

“Well, I had just set up my rifle to take him out. I look through my scope to get the target in my sights and I see him getting his throat strangled by a fine ass man in a kill suit,” Nathan said. “The mark had been beaten and tortured too.”

“What’s a kill suit?” Bruiser asked.

“All black,” every professional killer and enforcer replied.

Bruiser jerked and looked around. “Oh, okay. Didn’t know it had a name. I just thought that’s what you wore when shit was about to go down.”

Ze shrugged. “You’re not wrong, but it’s just tactical.”

“Anyway, I took the shot because I like getting paid and I don’t like losing jobs. The guy looked right at me, blood and brains from my mark’s head all over his face. He didn’t try to run. He walked up to the window and smiled at me, and winked. Then he walked away and went into the bathroom to wash his face. He came out clean, then he just left. I’ve never seen him again, but later after we were battling about who was going to get paid for doing the hit, I learned that it was Shadow Fox who had also been hired by someone else to kill the banker,” Nathan said.

“I hate double bookings,” Colton said.

“Apparently, he pissed off the right people and they wanted him dead. Our client didn’t care how it got done, just as long as it was done. Shadow Fox’s client wanted the man to suffer, so that’s why he was tortured before being killed with a garrote,” Nathan said.

“Do you know who’d hired Shadow Fox?”

Nathan shook his head. “Nope, but I know who Shadow Fox works for.”

All eyes were on Nathan as he looked at everyone.

“Well? Are you going to tell us?” Raven asked.

“Might as well, since we’re all hoping we don’t have to run into this motherfucker. Not only is he a damn good assassin, better than you and Iris.”

“But not you?” Colton cocked an eyebrow as he looked at his brother sarcastically.

Nathan chuckled. “We both know I’m the best in the family. But to be honest, I don’t know. I do know that when I took the shot, I caused a problem. Mom had to do a lot of negotiating to get the target off my back.”

Colton sat up. “Holy shit, how come I’m just now finding out about this?”

Nathan looked down and shrugged a shoulder. “Because it’s not anything I’m proud of. I shouldn’t have taken the shot. I broke the unspoken rule between assassins. In doing so, I’d almost gotten myself killed. Mom had to save our family’s reputation and negotiate with his boss, Vito Castiello, in order to get the hit called off. Apparently, Shadow Fox works for the mafia. Someone came to them asking for a favor to kill that banker and he was tasked with the job.”