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“Go ahead. Tell me what you need this time,” Luca drawls.
“We’re going to be taking down Viggo’s club on Davenport Street. I don’t want any blowback. While we’re at it, ensure Dominik Kozlov sticks to his word, I know you have him in your pocket.”
“Done. Anything else?”
“Yes. I want a full breakdown on how deep the Carrera family are involved since they had a chopper at the site Bren was found. One can only imagine they’re part of this human trafficking.”
I grimace on Oscar’s words. This is so much bigger than us, and it’s terrifying.
“Mm, that could be difficult. I don’t intend on getting involved in their business,” he declares. “I will be at the club within the hour,” Luca confirms, ending the call.
I glance toward Jace, who shrugs.
“Looks like we’re going to Viggo’s club.” Oscar nods toward Finn, who smiles back at him manically.
Then Oscar’s cold eyes turn in my direction. “To reiterate, we are going to take down his club and to get answers from his manager as to where Lucas is.” Oscar points toward the laptop. “Because he hasn’t stepped foot in that place.”
Dread pools in my stomach. If Lucas isn’t in that club but that was his last location, then where the hell is he?
Chapter
Twenty-Two
LUCAS
My temple throbs, and my muscles are pulled taut, prickling with awareness that I’m not alone. The scent of the room is nostalgic for all the wrong reasons.
When I approached Viggo’s club, I was well aware he wasn’t in there and the cameras surrounding the vast building were aware of my presence and tracking my every move.
Once I’d garnered enough attention, I sat in my car and waited for the inevitable to happen. So it came as no surprise when my car door was flung open and a gun was pointed at my temple. I wasn’t sure if Viggo would recognize me, and as I turned my head to face him, I was disappointed to see not a flash of recognition in his eyes, which pissed me off. Gritting my teeth, I wondered how someone could inflict so much pain and trauma on someone else on such a regular basis and then not have an ounce of recognition of it. Was I really that disposable to him. That much of a toy?
He didn’t so much as search my face. “Who the fuck are you?” he grunted out, and I wanted nothing more than to cut his filthytongue from his mouth, knowing the monstrous shit that would have spewed from him while he hurt Tia.
“Don’t you recognize me,sir?” I sneer.
He jolted at the pet name he made me call him, then his head tilted from side to side as he surveyed me before letting out the familiar sick chuckle that kept me awake as a child.
I felt the pain before I even saw it coming. It was so quick, then blackness, and I welcomed it with open arms, knowing what was to come.
TIA
Anxiety sends shudders through my body riddled with guilt, regret, and panic.
Knowing I was going to push them further away to punish them and now Lucas could be enduring the worst punishment of all, is breaking my heart. They didn’t betray me out of disloyalty, they did it out of love.
My eyes meet Jace’s, and he swallows slowly. He’s worried about me, of course he is, always the protector. Again, the pang of sorrow fills me at the way I reacted. I was going to ask them to leave. My heart skips a beat at the thought, and I gasp for breath and jump to my feet with a need to do something.
Jesus, I would have destroyed them.
“I’m coming too,” I declare.
Oscar doesn’t even regard me and just looks to his brother. Finn frowns in Jace’s direction, and slowly, the hope I had to help and be there for him like he was always there for me diminishes.
“She’s coming,” Jace announces, and I want to throw myself into his arms with gratitude. “You do as we say, Thalia.” His stern voice leaves no room for argument.
“I will. I promise.” I nod.
“Can she use a weapon?” Oscar asks.
