KADE

“Get them in, Fang,” I barked, swerving the car as the tires screeched across wet asphalt.

“But boss, we haven’t heard anything from Alpha yet,” Fang said, hesitation bleeding through the line.

My brows pulled tight. “What do you mean? He was supposed to notify you about the drop an hour ago.”

There was a pause, filled with nothing but static and Fang’s uneasy breath. “We got silence. No code, no ping. I thought maybe he was stalling for a reason.”

“He’s not stalling,” I growled, weaving past a slow-moving truck. “He’s either compromised or playing a game he shouldn’t be.”

“What do you want me to do?”

“Lock...