"Boss." My informant inside the detention center. His voice had a rare shake to it. "We have a problem. Ronald got out. Someone paid off internal staff and walked him right through the door. Our guys lost the trail." The temperature in the hallway seemed to drop. Someone had pulled a prisoner out from under Voss protection. In Denver. In our city. This wasn't just an insult. This was someone pressing their heel into the Voss name and grinding it into the floor. More than that, letting Ronald walk free meant letting everything Kate had suffered go unanswered. "Alert everyone." My jaw ached from how hard I was clenching it. The Alpha pressure I was barely keeping contained bled out into the corridor. "Lock down the city. Every resource we have. I don't care what it costs. I want Ronald

