LUCAS'S POV
"You have got to be kidding me!" I snarl as I slam the report down on my desk, hard enough that the corners of the pages curl up like they are afraid of me.
Vera failed. Failed. After all the planning, all the resources, all the patience... she let that damn Hunter slip right through her hands.
I stare at the blood smear on the corner of the file like it's trying to tell me something I don't want to hear.
My man's last message was vague and full of excuses. Something about Hunter waking up mid-transport and shifting halfway, breaking restraints, killing one of the guards, then disappearing into the trees.
And Vera? She is alive, barely, but missing. Probably ran knowing what would happen to her once she appeared before me. Idiots. All of them. I should have don
