Chapter 120: Untie Her
The moment the news reached Adrian Blake, Paris ceased to exist.
The call didn't come through cleanly.
It crackled with urgency, clipped voices overlapping, information arriving in fragments rather than order. But Adrian didn't need the details laid out neatly to understand the core of it.
An attack.
Black Arrow.
A missing hostage.
And a house that should never have been breached.
Stephen looked up from his tablet, reading the shift in Adrian's posture before a single command was spoken. Adrian was already moving, shrugging into his coat, jaw set, eyes dark with something colder than anger.
"Get the jet ready," Adrian said. "Now."
Stephen hesitated only a fraction of a second. "What about Miss Amelia... Is she coming with us?"
Adrian paused mid-step.
"She will be dropped off at the nearest point to the Blake estate," Adrian said flatly.
Stephen nodded. "Understood."
