CHAPTER 75

LUCAS'S POV

My blood turned to pure ice, but my hands stayed rock steady as I kept my gun leveled straight at Lord Julian Sterling's chest through the bulletproof glass.

"You're Victoria Sterling's father," I said at once, the pieces falling together in my mind. "The high-level backing behind the Phoenix Initiative."

Julian's faint smile vanished, and a dark, dangerous frost took its place in his grey eyes.

"Victoria was my finest agent," Julian said smoothly, though his jaw twitched with anger he was holding back. "A brilliant operative who gave her whole life to building our council's power across Western Europe. And your... little girlfriend... left her...