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looked up into dark eyes with no white.
    What kind of Alice-in-fucking-Wonderland rabbit hole have I fallen into?

Chapter Four
    Texarkana, Texas, Three months later
    Just like an old western movie, Sienna walked into the small country bar, half expecting bullets to start flying. Instead, the music kept playing, and people continued their talking, drinking, and dancing. It was loud, crowded, annoying. She looked over the horde of partygoers for the man she’d come to see, nearly missing him for the ten-gallon hat he wore. He had bellied up to the bar, nursing a frosty draught.
    He was a man she’d hoped to never see again. Some memories were better left in the past. But she hadn’t sneaked off base tonight for a drink with an old friend. She needed to warn someone before it was too late. Just this week, a Draeken scout ship had been spotted flying over the base. If the Sephian base hadn’t been discovered yet, it would be soon. It would be just a matter of time now.
    She’d never heard back from Kat. So, if anyone could help the Sephians, it was Jax. Taking a deep breath, Sienna gave her late husband’s best friend a quick smile, and hoped that her clothes and makeup covered the soullare enough to not raise suspicion.
    Before taking a step closer, she scanned the bar for anyone else from Jax’s unit, anyone she’d recognize from when she worked with them. In her email, she’d pleaded for Jax to come alone, but he was a soldier first. Just like Bobby.
    As soon as she saw the man sitting in the booth at the other end of the bar, she knew Jax’s unit was here. Sporting a buzz cut and sitting too uptight for a night out, the fifty-something man didn’t fit. The Army’s 51st Division, a Black Ops team of specialized Rangers was here. The F-bomb popped into mind, and she gritted her teeth. Seeing the man in the booth verified her suspicions. It was a setup. And Sienna had just opened up the Sephians to a risk greater than the Draeken threat.
    No thanks to her, the U.S. military was onto them. Well, at least the military knew something was up. There was no way they’d be as tolerant as she was of the Sephians. Even for her, it hadn’t been easy. It took more than three weeks before she finally accepted that Legian had spoken the truth, and that she was not a prisoner. And a full month before she could stomach their food without spending the next hour in the bathroom. The next two months had been packed learning foreign traditions, coming to grips with the ins and outs of a freakish soul bond … and falling in love.
    Sienna never thought she’d find love again. She’d never wanted to find love again. But Legian changed all that with the force of an asteroid storm. The tahren bond may have brought them together, but it was all Legian why she stayed. It was the little things he did, like the time he surprised her with an Xbox and several of her favorite RPGs to make life on base feel a bit more like home. How he’d acquired it, she was afraid to ask. Or, like the time he painted her toenails as they talked about her dreams of flying and his dreams of mountain climbing.
    She sighed. Unfortunately, the U.S. military didn’t have the benefit of the tahren bond to start a relationship. It didn’t matter if the Sephians said they’d followed the Draeken — a far more violent race — here. Having not one but two alien races on American soil would be the last straw. There’d be violence, hate, murder, and suicide, and that would be day one alone.
    Armageddon 101.
    Straightening her posture, Sienna spun on her heel to walk right back out the way she came in before this turned into a cluster fuck. Then wham. She came to a hard stop against a cowboy who filled out all ten gallons of that hat of his. She tried to get around him, but a large hand latched onto her bicep, and she looked up into Jax’s eyes as he pulled her onto the dance floor.
    He brushed a finger across her neck as if he were disgusted. “Nice ink,” he