Chapter 57

Luca didn’t remember much of the drive to Lenox Hill. He was still wound up tight after his face-to-face with Nicole. He just hoped he had scared her enough to make her back off.

He would never let his guard down until she was in jail or gone from the US for good.

There would never be forgiveness. The damage she’d tried to do… to Sutton, to Cyber10, to Miles—if she’d gotten into the NICU, the consequences would’ve been unimaginable. He hadn’t even let himself consider what might’ve happened if she’d made it past security, if she’d found a way into the NICU. Just the thought made his chest tighten enough to hurt.

But she hadn’t.

His legal team had tipped off her lawyers about his intention to press formal charges. He just hoped she’d want to save her skin enough to bolt. Orange was not a good color on Nicole.

His phone buzzed just as he was pulling into the parking structure under the hospital.

It was an unknown number, but it was the call he had been wai