"I like trouble just fine," she said. "I'm in a speakeasy. Only...we're looking at a very different kind of trouble."

People could get hurt. Chief among them, anyone involved in her particular assignment. And Stefan too. She didn't want anything to happen to him, but it wouldn't be hard to draw a line between them. After all, they'd been seen together in public, leaving a Cainite conclave not too long ago.