As I stalked off to my room to get cleaned up, I had several thoughts haunting me.
The first and foremost, as usual lately, was Evelyn— the way her presence seemed to light me on fire and turn me into a lunatic. It was even worse now, with her under my roof, always just within reach.
The second was the intruder we’d caught on camera at the gate last night. No one had ever been bold enough to sniff around Lucci Manor— and the fact that it was happening now, with her living in my house, made me even more uneasy. I’d tightened security at the gate and around the property, but I couldn’t squash the fear in my gut.
It had been almost impossible to see when Henry had shown me the footage. My men were changing shifts, and a shadow was curiously ghosting around the fence, just a few hundred
