Chapter 136.

Lance's POV.

Long after Dylan left to sort out some issues, I'm still searching. Allyssa must be up and looking for me by now, but I cannot stop.

Someone just got killed under my nose, my subordinate just got killed right under my nose and I had no idea and did nothing to help the situation.

There are footsteps around the shrubs near the place where the body was found, but when I follow it, it leads me right back to where I started.

It's either the killer had circled his victim and killed him, or he had circled the crime scene just to mock me, show me that whatever I do, my efforts are not going anywhere, and I'm still stuck in the same cycle of failure.

Frustration pumps through my bloodstream and in my veins, ringing loud in my ears as I pace the length of ghd crime scene, trying to make heads or tails if whatever is going on here, the powers at play are way too powerful.

I know now that whoever is doing this is meticulous and calculative and also confident, if they dared to kill a