Chapter 122

Lucas's POV

“The more you keep her hidden, the more my fuel to find her ignites.”

I’d barely cleared the threshold of my penthouse when that raspy, aristocratic voice reverberated through the living room.

It was a voice that had haunted my childhood, a voice that sounded like expensive cigars and buried secrets.

For a heartbeat, I was startled—a primal instinct of the hunted—but it evaporated in