Kurtis POV
The meeting with Victor Langston had gone better than expected, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that we’d only scratched the surface of his schemes. As Lyra and I walked back to the car, the tension between us began to ease. Her presence was like a balm to my frayed nerves, and I couldn’t help but glance at her every few steps, marveling at how effortlessly she carried herself.
“Do you think he’ll retaliate?” she asked, breaking the silence.
“Victor?” I scoffed, unlocking the car. “He’ll try. Men like him don’t go down without a fight. But we’ve got him cornered. The evidence is solid, and he knows it.”
She slid into the passenger seat, her fingers drumming lightly on the armrest. “Still, it’s unsettling. The way he looked at us, it’s like he wasn’t just angry. He wa
