A Calculated Alliance

~IVY~

{SIX MONTH AGO: THE LEO INCIDENT}

The drive back to the city should have been humiliating.

Should have been the death knell of whatever fantasy I had been having about Donovan Vance and our supposed future together.

Instead, I found myself strangely energized.

I stared out the window of the hired car as Mahanttan's skyline came into view, replaying every moment of this afternoon's disaster.