_Alaric’s POV_
I deployed everything.
That was the only way to describe what happened in the four hours after Kasper told me what happened on that street. I pulled every resource I had access to and I deployed it without hesitation and without the measured calculation I normally brought to operational decisions.
Reid had the regional guard network activated within twenty minutes of my call. Every exit from the city was covered. Road, air, river. The six major routes out and the fourteen minor ones. I had people I trusted on every one of them with instructions that were simple and non-negotiable. Nothing leaves this city that we haven’t cleared.
I contacted the three pack leaders in the surrounding territories personally. Not through channels. Directly, mindlink to Alpha, the
