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Lucas jerked to a stop All the little details about the short man came into focus The faded scar above his shirt collar His super-short blond hair The chunk ht ear where a stray bullet during the Elskov coup ten years ago had ain to avenge his father
Gregers Henriksen was on Fare Island
An icy fury directed only at himself pricked every nerve until Lucas was so overloaded, he couldn’t feel a da, and this hat let him clearly think for the first ti the arrival of the wedding guests, awith the crie was the perfect plan One Lucas should have seen co, not if he was going to stop that exchange before Henriksen took off with the rest of the guests Sundayover at Ruby, he saw the same stark realization in her eyes
“It’s okay,” she whispered “It comes first”
Before he could forrid pivoted and spotted them
“If it isn’t the happy couple,” she exclaimed “Ruby and Luc, couest and the only woman I’ve ever met who can do such a beautiful fascinator justice Don’t you agree, Ruby?”
“Most definitely” Her voice shook the slightest bit, but her gaze and welco smile held steady as she reached out to shake the woman’s hand
“Have you ers?” Rolf leaned in closer to the man “He’s a friend of ours who carries secrets for the same reasons the other people carry cash”
Rolf chuckled at his own joke Ignoring his host, Henriksen narrowed his eyes and gave Lucas the kind of hard look that made every hair on the back of his neck stand at attention Less than fifteen people in the world knew Luc Svendsen, dealer of information people would rather keep quiet, was Lucas Bendtsen, head of the Silver Knights The chance of that secret getting out was minute, but who better than him to know that those were the exact kind of secrets that always h, the questioning look disappeared
“You do look fa the name with the face” Henriksen shook Lucas’s hand “You’ll have to forgive me I’m horrible with names”
“It’s good tohis palm on his p
ants took , but control was his best weapon right now
More of the guests wandered over to extend their ishes The conversation went on around him, and he was sure to make the appropriate responses and facial expressions, but he wasn’t really listening Henriksen had disappeared into the crowd, but Lucas couldn’t shake the feeling that thehis tie once Lucas couldn’t take the chance that he’d do it again, not when Henriksen and the guns were on the island
The guns
It jolted through him His team wasn’t here, but if he, Clausen, and Jasper could confirhts could confiscate them and take Henriksen into custody The fact that Rolf wouldn’t be sentenced to a life inside an Elskovian prison for his part in the plot burned a hole in Lucas’s gut, but the order had come down from the queen herself not to touch hih, he needed to ensure he wasn’t sending his agents on another wild goose chase He had to uns were here, somewhere on the island