Freddy’s POV

The adrenaline was still coursing through me when I heard the news. Robert had taken Lola. Not only had he struck when I was vulnerable, but he’d also managed to slip through the cracks in my world, leaving nothing but chaos in his wake.

I stood in the middle of her office, staring out the window into the city below, trying to calm the storm in my chest. The city that had been mine for so long now felt like a battleground. But I wasn’t afraid. Not of Robert, not of Lola—none of them.

I just wanted them both gone.

My hands clenched into fists at my sides....