Head first

Raven fixed Lioness with a stare.
"You don't have to do it."
"I don't have to... but I want to. We've been through this. I am an agent."
He shrugged, and dropped the subject. She took it as victory.
***
Three weeks later, she felt guilty, as she remembered that exchange.
Maybe motherhood made her rusty, she never saw them coming before there was a sack over her head.
Whoever "they" were...
She got her answer as door she couldn't see opened in the cell.
"It's not always fun to be swept off your feet," an unmistakable, enchanting voice told her.