RYAN POV
The call came in the middle of the night, dragging me out of sleep. I knew it was serious when I reached groggily for my phone and saw my father’s name flashing on the screen. He never called at this hour unless something had already been spilled.
“Hi dad,” I answered tiredly. “Is everything okay?”
“Ryan,” Alpha Taggart’s voice was heavy and tired. “Our people were stopped again and none of them made it. I don’t know what went wrong.”
The words pushed me off my bed. I sat up, my heart hammering. “Dad, are you sure? We made sure everything was covered. No one knew the route except the two of us.”
“Someone knew, because everything just got f****d up,” my father said, his voice shaking. “It’s like every time we take a step forward, there’s something in the shadows waiting to str
