LUCAS POV
Brea was still unconscious, yet watching her sleep still made me feel giddy. It was a thrill to have so easily acquired something I knew Nicolai would kill for. I felt f*****g powerful.
Ryder had been a good puppet till the very end, and I was sure Nicolai was going to have him killed, especially when he saw that he'd been the one to get Brea out of her room.
The soldiers I had were all dead, but it was all part of the sacrifice for a greater cause. They were all aware that infiltrating the mansion would lead to a m******e, but the promise I'd made to take care of their families and their quest for revenge for the death of Xavier was all the push they needed to risk their necks.
They had created a diversion and I'd been able to get out of the mansion undetected. Not that I
