Jax
We changed the transport plan three times overnight, trying to stay ahead of whatever Cole already knew from Pete's forced cooperation, but some risks couldn't be engineered away entirely. Marisol, Winnie, and Alvarez all needed to be moved to the compound eventually, and every route carried exposure we couldn't fully eliminate no matter how carefully we planned it.
Ryder decided on a decoy convoy at dawn, splitting our people across two routes, hoping to divide whatever forces Cole had watching. I rode with the real convoy, Zoe insisting on coming along despite every argument Ryder threw at her, until Reyna backed her up, pointing out that having an extra set of trained eyes mattered more right now than keeping Zoe wrapped in bubble wrap.
"Ten minutes out," Mason said over the radi
