Emily gazed at the warehouse like a monstrous shadow, its iron doors commanding height against the starry docks. She hardly felt the salty wind off the lake as she tightened her knuckles white with Liam's arm. "This is the venue?" Her heart hammering in her chest, she asked her voice only a whisper. Liam nodded, his gaze sweeping the surroundings. Marcus conceals his most delicate procedures here. Getting Daniel out here will not be simple. Emily choked hard, his words weighing her stomach like a lead ball. Though she had envisioned Marcus's lair in a thousand ways, this stark, barren location seemed more deadly than anything her imagination could have generated. Her voice hard with resolution, she murmured, "I'm not going without him." Liam looked at her, shadows but focused. No

