Lucien

It had been one day since she had gone missing, thought Lucien. And he was nowhere close to finding her.

He had reached out to everyone he could think of, trying to find where the man he was seeking, Dmitri Rudenko, had holed away his woman.

He kept drawing a blank.

He had sent his men to the various hideouts where Rudenko famously tortured his victims; and had set them on fire. Schwartz had overseen that, personally.

But there was no sign of Proserpina. It was as though she had vanished.

Lucien felt it like a blow; he had never thought she would be captured in this way. He...