Kieran looked up, eyebrow raised, as Aidan seated himself next to him. 

    He was met with a genial smile. "What have I missed?" Aidan inquired good-naturedly. 

    "I was just explaining our first course of action," Kieran answered, his words deliberately abstruse. 

    Mistral tossed him a look that was at once knowing, reproving, and impatient. "We're headed to the Beverly Ridge Estates," she said. 

    Rubbing his hands together and grinning in an excessive show of gleefulness, Aidan said, "Crashing parties always was one of my talents, if I do say so myself." He looked around expectantly. "What are we waiting for?"

    His trademark quiet amusement flickering in the corners of his mouth, Flynn was the first to stand. "Nothing, I suppose," he answered.

    The group followed Flynn four stories down, into the dimly-lit garage, where he sauntered over to a black Mercedes-Benz sedan. 

    "You'll be a little cramped, but it's swift and inconspicuous," he said, sliding behind the steering wheel. Kieran claimed the passenger seat, leaving Mistral, Aidan, and Veronique Tahan to sort out the seating arrangements for the back seat themselves. 

    A short while later, they were on the highway, silence reigning within the car as Flynn expertly directed the sleek Mercedes through Los Angeles traffic. Kieran sat in the passenger seat, Mistral directly behind him, and Aidan between her and Veronique Tahan. All told, Kieran was sure that the situation in the back seat was more than a little cramped, but truth be told, he didn't particularly care.

    However, after ten minutes and having heard Aidan murmur, "Sorry," to Veronique for accidentally elbowing her in the side at least three times, Kieran relented. 

    "I want this to be clean," he said, his lilting Irish accent cutting cleanly through the quietude. "My calculations give us approximately two minutes to get into position after we arrive." 

    "Position?" Veronique prompted archly.

    Kieran turned his head to look out of the window. "Mistral, Aidan and Flynn will be the active members of this operation. You shall remain with me, inside the sedan."

    "As an active member of this operation, I'm quite interested in knowing exactly what is required of me," Aidan drawled, his insouciant Australian accent impeccable.

    "You, Mistral and Flynn will be the ones responsible for securing Raven and Amber Chase," Kieran responded. 

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A/N:

It's ten o' clock at night and I don't usually write this late (it's more likely that I'm watching Lucifer instead ahahah) but I forced myself to finish this chapter. Then I realized that I'm ahead of my chronological timing, so I had to go back and rewrite the past couple of chapters fml XD anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Vote and/or comment if you did, and have a wonderful day/night ^^;