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  Unmatched Love

  Book 6 Black Swan Series

  KaLyn Cooper

  Unmatched Love

  KaLyn Cooper

  Cover Artist: Drue Hoffman

  Editors: Trenda London, Rebecca Hodgkins

  ISBN: 978-1-970145-16-8

  Published 2020 by Black Swan Publishing, LLC

  Copyright © Published 2020 by Black Swan Publishing, LLC

  Printed in the United States of America

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogues in this book are of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Message to the Reader

  Dedication

  Acknowledgements

  About the Black Swan Series

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  About the Author

  Message to the Reader

  Welcome to Unmatched Love, the sixth book in the Black Swan series. Although all my books are stand-alone, you may wish to read the entire series so you are familiar with all the characters.

  If you are a fan of the Black Swan series, you’ll be seeing enjoy old friends in Unmatched Love.

  Even though Lei Lu is the last of the Black Swan Team 1 members to find happiness, Unmatched Love is not the end of the series. Unending Love is up next.

  Thank you for purchasing Unmatched Love. If you enjoy this book, consider purchasing the other books in the Black Swan series as well as the related Guardian Security series.

  Always,

  KaLyn Cooper

  Other books in this series by KaLyn Cooper:

  Black Swan Series

  Military active duty women secretly trained in Special Operations

  and the men who dare to capture the heart of a Woman Warrior.

  Unconventional Beginnings Prequel (Black Swan novella #0.5)

  Download FREE https://dl.bookfunnel.com/uec4utb66d

  Unrelenting Love: Lady Hawk (Katlin) & Alex (Black Swan novel #1)

  Noel’s Puppy Power: Bailey & Tanner (A Sweet Christmas Black Swan novella #1.5)

  Uncaged Love: Harper & Rafe (Black Swan novel #2)

  Unexpected Love: Lady Eagle (Grace) & Griffin (Black Swan novel #3)

  Challenging Love: Katlin & Alex (A Black Swan novella #3.5)

  Unguarded Love: Lady Harrier (Nita) & Daniel (Black Swan novel #4)

  Choosing Love: Grace & Griffin (A Black Swan novella #4.5)

  Unbeatable Love: Lady Falcon (Tori) & Marcus (Black Swan novel #5)

  Unmatched Love: Lady Kite (Lei Lu) & Henry (Black Swan novel #6)

  Guardian Elite Series

  Former special operators,

  these men work for Guardian Security (from the Black Swan Series)

  protecting families in their homes and executives on the road,

  but they can’t always protect their hearts.

  DOUBLE JEOPARDY (Novella #1 Guardian Elite series crossover with Hildie McQueen’s

  Justice for Gwen (Novella #2 Guardian Elite series crossover with Susan Stoker’s Special Forces World)

  Rescuing Melina (Novella #3 Guardian Elite series crossover with Susan Stoker’s Special Forces World)

  Snow SEAL (Novella #4 Guardian Elite series crossover with Elle James Brotherhood Protectors World)

  Securing Willow (Novella #5 Guardian Elite series crossover with Susan Stoker’s Special Forces World)

  SEAL in a Storm (Novel #5 is part of the Suspense Sisters new wave of connected books, Silver SEALs featuring a seasoned hero and heroine, second chances, and edge of your seat suspense.)

  Dedication

  I dedicate this book to the men and women who spend their military career on top and underneath the ocean.

  Acknowledgements

  I’d like to thank my awesome team. This book wouldn’t be what it is without them. Thank you Barry Bell, my personal dive expert and dear friend. As always, my thanks to the Ladies of Black Swan Book Club who encourage me, make me laugh, and help suggest character names: Shannon Fry, Pamela Crosbie, Nikki Balulis, Cathy Christensen, Ashley Youngren, Teresa Christianson, Jessica Marshall. Beth Cotter, Beverly Blank, Deb Diem, Mary Lawson.

  A special thanks to Drue Hoffman for my sexy cover, Trenda London for her guidance, suggestions, and willingness to call me out, and Rebecca Hodgkins for correcting all my Dragonisms and comma-fobia.

  Last, my thanks to my husband who helps me with everything from supper to thrilling scenes.

  I couldn’t make this happen without each and every one listed above. Thank you for being in my life!

  About the Black Swan Series

  Rara avis in terris is Latin for “a rare bird in the lands.”

  In the ancient world, it was believed that the landing of a single black swan

  created a change that would affect the entire world.

  FACT: A woman can get a man alone within hours ...and kill him in seconds.

  Fact: Men always underestimate beautiful women.

  Fact: There are a lot of entities in our military that very few people know about.

  Chapter 1

  Lei Lu Sorensen sat in front of the huge mirror surrounded by softball-sized lights dimmed to approximate the room where she’d be working. With professional skill, she applied white makeup to her heart-shaped face, trying desperately to stay in Lady Kite mode. She had to keep her head in the game and on the mission.

  Her cell phone dinged, once again, indicating another text.

  Lei Lu cringed as she smoothed out the nearly white foundation. She needed to look as Chinese as possible for this op. Not a difficult feat, considering that her mother was born and raised in the Guangdong province, northeast of Hong Kong.

  Thoughts of her mother conjured the woman in the form of her vibrating phone. She was calling this time, most likely because Lei Lu hadn’t answered the constant text messages over the last few days.

  Until this mission was over, she had no intention of reading any text from her family. Lately, it was always the same. It’s past time for you to get married. Your brothers’ wives are giving us grandchildren, but my own daughter hasn’t decided to reproduce. If you don’t find a good man soon, I’ll find one for you at our church.

  Lei Lu knew very well that she was fast approaching twenty-nine, even though she’d never celebrated her birthday until two years ago. Her mother abided by Chinese culture, only having a party when babies reached six months and again at one year. They held a huge bash for her when she turned six but wouldn’t hold another celebration until she turned sixty-six. It wasn’t until she joined the Ladies of Black Swan that she discovered the wonders of annual birthdays.

  And the fun of partying...with alcohol...and men who weren’t interested in finding a wife. All those things had been forbidden by her father, a devout Mormon. Thankfully, she escaped from that life, and lifestyle, by secretly securing an appointment to the Air Force Academy. The military, she quickly discovered, was a very different world.

  She loved her teammates
. They had taught her to rejoice in life. They could think of something to celebrate anytime—returning safely from a mission, doing well at training that day, or just because it was Tuesday. They loved to go all girly, get dressed up shiny and glittery and dance the night away at a club. Sometimes they curled up in their pajamas with a couple bottles of wine and several plates of cheese and crackers to watch a movie together. With two older brothers, Lei Lu had very little girl time in her childhood. Over the past two years, she’d been making up for it.

  Although she disagreed with her parents on so many things, her love for them ran deep. She promised herself she would read every email and text, and respond to everyone in her family, once they were on their sleek black jet headed back to the United States.

  Concentrating on her reflection in the mirror, Lei Lu continued to cover her normally ivory skin that had tanned while she and her team spent nearly a month in the Yemen desert tracking down Rafi Ghazali. Then they’d followed his movements for the next six weeks to learn his weaknesses.

  Just the thought of the man turned Lei Lu’s stomach. Calling him a pig was an insult to the animal. The way the rebel leader raped his new wives sickened her. They were just little girls.

  Rafi had a proclivity for dark-haired, light-skinned barely-teenage girls. That’s why Lei Lu had been selected for this part of the covert operation.

  Shaking off her disgust, trying to erase the live feed of his latest wedding night, she lengthened her eyelashes with long, smooth strokes. Using black eyeliner, she rimmed her dark brown eyes Cleopatra-style, bringing the liner well past the edge of her eyebrows, accenting her tilted, almond-shaped eyes. Because she was half-American mutt, hers did not lift as much as someone fully Chinese. A little dark shading at the outer edges would fool almost anyone.

  The lips had to be deep red, the same color as her long-tipped, freshly painted nails. She paused the audio of conversations in the Hadhrami dialect of Arabic to carefully outline her lips. Rafi was expecting a woman who spoke his language. Although everyone on her team was fluent in Arabic, each had specific specialties. Lei Lu was quickly learning one of the languages spoken in Yemen. She’d spent the last day listening to the colloquialisms and repeating them until she got the accents perfect.

  “Sounding good.” The encouragement came from her team leader, Katlin Callahan, as she stepped up behind her. “I think you’re getting it. Be careful with your syllabic inflections. In that area they tend to raise their voice at the end of each sentence.”

  “Okay, I can do that.” Lei Lu rotated her face left and right, surveying her handiwork. She looked damn good, at least ten years younger than her actual age. “Now that you say that, I can hear it.”

  “Ready to become as white as you were the day you were born?” Nita held up the spray gun.

  “Yeah, let’s do this.” Lei Lu stood, ripped off the white robe she’d been wearing, and walked naked to the pop-up tent the Ladies of Black Swan used regularly as a spray tanning booth.

  While Nita stained her skin with an atomizer, Katlin reviewed the operation parameters with Lei Lu. When she stepped out, she was alone with their team leader.

  “This is the first time you’ve done a close and personal kill. Are you sure you’re ready to do this?” Concern saturated Katlin’s voice.

  “Yeah, I got this.” All Lei Lu had to do was mentally plug in the video from Rafi Ghazali’s bedroom. She could kill the man with her bare hands for what he’d done to those all-too-young girls.

  Two weeks earlier, Nita had gone under cover as a healer, using her medical degree and knowledge of ancient plants to heal the women in the war leader’s nomadic camp. She’d been able to place tiny cameras throughout the compound. As Lei Lu and her teammates sat nearly a mile away, they’d watched Ghazali’s older wives lay his three new brides on the king-sized bed. The six elder women, ranging in age from early twenties to mid-forties, had forced the girls to drink something liquid and fast acting. They almost seemed drunk as they were stripped out of their simple white wedding dresses.

  When Ghazali entered the room, completely naked, stroking his cock, the terror in those young eyes had devastated Lei Lu. He’d crawled onto the bed, shoving the first girl’s legs apart, then plowed into her. There was nothing gentle about her first time. The high-pitched screams pierced Lei Lu’s soul. Tears poured from the eyes of all three girls on the bed. His hips pumped only a few times before he pulled out and pushed her off the mattress, ordering the women who stood watching to take care of her. Without cleaning himself off, he moved to the next. The third tried to fight him, but he punched her in the face. When her body went completely limp and silent, he rammed into her, swearing quietly about stupid little girls needing to learn their lessons.

  Standing, obviously unsatisfied, Ghazali once again stroked his cock as his gaze swept the line of his wives. Pointing to one in her mid-twenties, she bowed her head and lifted her abaya as she crawled onto the defiled bed, streaked with virginal blood. Naked underneath the black robe, she lay on her back and spread her legs wide. The man in his late fifties ordered her on her hands and knees. Slapping her ass hard several times, he took her from behind, finally stiffening his entire body and grunting out his release.

  Climbing off the bed, he ordered the remaining women to change the sheets. At the bathroom door, Ghazali called to the youngest-looking new bride, ordering her to bathe him. Wide-eyed on shaky legs, the small young girl followed him.

  Watching the disgusting scene unfold had increased Lei Lu’s hate for this target. They’d been taught that killing shouldn’t involve emotion, but she knew that she’d be glad when Rafi Ghazali no longer breathed.

  “This is going to be very different from anything you’ve done in the past.” Katlin’s words jolted Lei Lu from the repulsive memory. “This is one-on-one. It’s just going to be you in a soundproof room with the target.”

  “I understand. I’m good with this.” Lei Lu knew exactly what she had to do. She was more worried whether or not she could play with Rafi Ghazali long enough for the others to do their jobs.

  She’d killed many times before, but she’d been surrounded by her team. She’d been in firefights, leaving the enemy dead with absolutely no remorse. More than once, it had been the bullet from her sniper rifle that had taken out a target. Once, she, Tori, and Katlin had been surrounded by seven men with knives and the three of them walked away with nothing more than a few defensive wounds. Lei Lu was well aware of her capabilities.

  “The room is wired, so we’re going to hear every word and see what’s going on.” Katlin’s riveting blue eyes held hers. “I’ll be talking to you through your comm unit. We’ll be outside in the parking lot until you give Tori and Nita the go-ahead.”

  “I know you can do this.” Tori encouraged as she entered the room. “It’s almost time to leave.”

  “I’m good to go.” Lei Lu said with confidence as she put on the leather costume.

  She sat at the dressing table and rolled on black silk stockings, attaching them to a lace garter belt. She pulled up stretchy leather stiletto boots that came halfway up her powerful thighs. She would wait before putting on the long gloves and attaching her wings.

  Stepping in front of the full-length mirror, she slipped completely into the character of Lady Kite...dominatrix.

  It wasn’t the first time she’d played a domme, but it would be the first time that the role ended in an assassination. For this op, it was her responsibility to make sure Rafi Ghazali did not leave the playroom alive.

  “We have confirmation. ETA is forty-five minutes,” Tori called from the suite’s living room. “Grace watched his plane land and they’re deboarding now.”

  “How many guards?” Katlin asked.

  “Hold on. Grace is running narrative.” A moment later Tori stepped into the doorway. “Ghazali’s driver replaced the one who brought the limousine. No surprise there. He has two personal guards with him who will probably station themselves outside the door. His d
river always stays with the car.”

  “Excellent. Just as we thought.” Katlin slowly looked Lei Lu over from her high ponytails to the pointed toes. “Perfect. Let’s go.”

  When the limousine pulled up to the exclusive BDSM club in the heart of Dubai, they were ready. Ghazali was escorted into a private room by his guards where Lei Lu stood beside Madame Payne, the high-end establishment owner, her arm casted and in a sling.

  “Welcome back, Mr. Ghazali.” The madame’s sultry voice was seductive even to Lei Lu. “I’m terribly sorry but due to an injury, I’m unable to take care of you tonight.” She gently moved the casted arm and winced as though it hurt. Lei Lu admired the woman’s acting skills. “I’m sure you will find Lady Kite to your liking.”

  On cue, Lei Lu spread her arms wide, showing off the black-and-white feathers in the pattern of a Swallow-Tailed Kite. She wiggled her toned ass, shaking the tail feathers. Little did Ghazali know that she was as deadly as the raptor she represented.

  Ghazali smiled as he stroked his already aroused cock through his black leather pants. She spread her legs apart and released the black bull whip in her hand.

  “How good is she with that whip?” Ghazali reached for Madame Payne and Lei Lu cracked the whip so it barely touched him.

  His two bodyguards immediately strode forward.

  With the twitch of his other hand, they faded back to the wall.

  The club owner tsked. “You know better than to touch your domme without her permission, Mr. Ghazali.”

  “Madame Payne, I beg your forgiveness.” The smile he gave Lei Lu from under hooded eyes spoke of wanton desire. He examined the pink mark on the back of his hand before he traced the long line with the tip of his tongue. “I’m sure I’ve earned Lady Kite’s punishment. I’m looking forward to more of the same.”

  “In that case, I shall leave you in her very capable hands.” The corner of the woman’s mouth kicked up. “I’m sure you’ll get everything you deserve.”