Damien’s POV:
The room was dark except for the computer screens on my desk that glowed. I had been staring at maps, names, and routes for hours but I did not feel tired because I was too focused on my goal: I had to bring Gideon back alive.
I leaned forward in my chair while Luca stood beside me, silent, letting me think. I knew that the Black Tide did not kill people immediately if they could use them for leverage. They were using Gideon to get to Sera. They wanted to break her.
I knew Gideon was still alive. I knew they had not killed him yet, They wanted something more than money.
I straightened, my jaw tightening. “Get me the last known Black Tide safe houses within a three-hundred-mile radius. Old ones too. Places that were abandoned years ago.”
Luca hesitated. “Those locations
