Lucian's POV
Dawn had barely cracked the horizon when I finally let my eyes close—just for a moment.
But the peace didn't last.
My phone buzzed insistently on the desk beside me.
"Alpha, we can't locate the man," my Bet,Leo, said, voice tight with frustration. "He may have already left the country."
I sat up, massaging the bridge of my nose as I opened the surveillance images they'd sent.
The man's face was unfamiliar. No records. No digital fingerprint. Nothing.
A ghost in the system.
Whoever was pulling the strings was meticulous. Careful. Dangerous.
The Storm business empire had reach—global, even.
And no one builds that kind of empire with clean hands.
We'd made enemies. That much came with the territory.
But this didn't feel like a business rival'
