Lucas’s POV

I had received several messages from Alicia since she got into trouble.

All brief. All anxious. All unanswered.

Alicia had told me she was out of jail. She didn’t know what was happening anymore and needed to see me.

But I couldn’t reply.

It wasn’t out of cruelty. I had been busy—my lawyer had spent the better part of the night getting her charges buried under a fabricated medical certificate, the senator was cornered in a ...