Kade's POVThe phone was still in my hand.Sarah's voice continued through it, fragmented sentences, details I wasn't fully processing, the specific tone of someone who had rehearsed this call and was now discovering that rehearsal didn't account for the actual silence on the receiving end.I took a deep breathe The panic that had hit me in the first seconds was doing what panic did when you applied discipline to it.I was an Alpha.I had stood in rooms where people were dying and made decisions anyway. I had delivered news that broke people and kept my voice steady through it. I had learned before I was twenty that emotions were information, not instructions, and that the difference between a good Alpha and a compromised one was the ability to feel something fully and still choose what happened next.I chose.Something locked into place behind my sternum. Cold and deliberate and final.I thought about the last several months. The contract. The pack house. Every complicated, costly t
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