Damien didn’t sleep much after the call with Elena. The article was spreading faster than his team could contain it. Small blogs, social media threads, whispers in the right circles. Lila was playing a patient game, leaking just enough to damage without giving him an easy target to sue. Smart. Calculated. Exactly like her.
But it was the thought of Marcus that kept him up.
The man who had helped kidnap Elena. The man who had once tried to sell her for ransom. Now supposedly working with Lila. Damien had let him walk once, for Elena’s sake. He wasn’t making that mistake again.
The next morning, he told Reyes to locate Marcus and set up a meeting. Not at the penthouse. Not at a bar. Somewhere neutral but private, an empty warehouse on the edge of the city that one of his shell companies o
