Yet another way they're a perfect match, and another way their skill set shines. It's likely that their handlers could kill them if they thought they were causing too much trouble, but then they'd lose the benefit of having trained them at all. Gabriel and Brady are too good at getting what they want for them to be looked upon so lightly by their superiors. Even if they cause a little trouble back at base, they're worth it.

Maybe it's spoiled, maybe it's entitled, maybe they ought to have been killed in their teens. Whatever it may be, it's too late now, and they're too valuable anyway.

She shoots him a grin that's equal parts sinister and coy as she takes his hand and stands. "You are today." As if to reinforce the fact, she tucks her hand in the crook of his elbow. She's not the important one here, as far as the other guests are concerned. All she is is the woman on his arm, graceful and mysterious and foreign (not true; she absorbed the accent from her trainers, and now it's as much a part of her as being at Gabriel's side).

And that's fine with her.