Chapter 36
The words struck the room like an explosion.
"They just kidn*pped Lucas Bennett."
For a moment, nobody moved.
Nobody spoke.
Even the air seemed to vanish from the storage unit.
Sophia was the first to react.
"No."
The word came out as a whisper.
A broken whisper.
Victor looked at her with grim certainty.
"I'm sorry."
"No."
Her voice rose this time.
Shaking.
Panicked.
"No, that's impossible."
Evelyn stared at her former best friend.
The fear on Sophia's face wasn't fake.
It wasn't manipulation.
It wasn't guilt.
It was terror.
Raw and devastating.
For the first time since all of this began, Evelyn saw just how much Sophia still cared about Lucas.
And how terrified she was of losing him.
Victor slipped the phone back into his pocket.
"The convoy transporti
