As Liam watched Victor emerge, his guys flanking him with predatory smiles, his heart dropped. The gloom of the building site did nothing to conceal the hate in Victor's eyes, the icy, deliberate gaze of a man who has thought through every possibility.
Victor continued, his voice low and menacing, "I told you." You cannot run faster than me. You ought to have known better.
With his weapon tightly against his chest, Daniel moved tensely next to Liam. "We're cornered," he murmured, even if the awareness felt like a kick to the gut.
Liam's mind flew, looking for any way out, any flaw in Victor's web of control. But they were confined; Victor's men locked off every exit, and the building site loomed over them like a prison. No exit was possible. Not this time.
Victor looked briefly at Da
