Valor City, foothill villa district.
Matthew Powell walked step by step toward the estate belonging to the Lacy family, his camo duffel hanging from one hand.
And just like that—
six years of memories struck him all at once.
Six years ago, he had been drugged inside Alexander Care Center, half-conscious, half-delirious—and in that haze, he and Sarah Lacy, who had also been trapped and drugged, had ended up in the same nightmare.
The next morning, the Lacy elders dragged them both to the civil registry.
A marriage certificate stamped.
No ceremony.
No explanation.
And that same night—
he vanished.
Now, six years later, he was no longer the hunted boy hiding in the shadows.
He had become something far more lethal, far more fearsome.
And he intended to give her the world she had b
