Ryder I had the whole club mobilized within twenty minutes of hanging up with Mason, splitting into three teams before the adrenaline had even fully settled into my system. Cole's phone call had changed everything, moved us from careful planning into something closer to triage, and I wasn't going to waste a single minute second-guessing the shift. "Jax, take two men and get to Alvarez," I said, pulling on my jacket as the compound came alive around me. "He needs protection now, not after the filing goes through. If Cole's willing to threaten him by name, he's already a target." "On it," Jax said, already moving toward the door. "Mason, you're with me. We're getting Marisol somewhere secure." I glanced at Zoe, still pale from the phone call, resolve fighting visibly against the fear in

