THE ABANDONED shipyard had transformed into something almost unrecognizable.
When Sophie stepped out of Lucien's armored sedan, she paused for a moment to take everything in.
The underground races she had witnessed before suddenly felt small by comparison.
Towering floodlights illuminated several city blocks that had been sealed off with temporary barriers. Luxury sports cars occupied one parking area while rows of high-performance motorcycles lined another. Security personnel wearing discreet earpieces patrolled every entrance, checking invitations against encrypted QR codes that disappeared from guests' phones moments after they were scanned.
This wasn't an illegal gathering held together by adrenaline anymore.
It was an industry.
Sophie's eyes traveled across the crowd.
She recog
