The Necessary Variable

I looked at Ivana.

"Why are you telling me this?"

She held my gaze without flinching.

"Because I want in," she said. "Not Kaelen. Not the Wolfe pack specifically. The alliance — the Moonshadow resources and the Wolfe network in the same structure, because that reshapes three sectors I'm actively building in. And I have been running an intelligence operation and sending photographs and making mysel