He understood the calculation they were making. He was making it himself.
What her bloodline actually carries, beyond the genetic marker.
He did not give Cartwright's exit the dignity of appearing to register it.
But when the room cleared — when the last council member had filed out and David Harlow was gathering his papers — Dax stood alone at the head of the table for a moment and thought about what it meant that Cartwright, with nothing left to lose, had chosen that specific threat.
Not a threat about evidence. Not a threat about legal process.
A threat about information.
About something in the Moonhaven bloodline that Emory hadn't told Remi.
He picked up his phone. Called Marcus.
"The second watcher. Stellan Merritt. Sterling Enterprises. I want to know when he last had direct
