I looked at Jade.
"Why are you telling me this?"
She held my gaze without flinching.
"Because I want in," she said. "Not Dax. Not the Wolfe pack specifically. The alliance — the Moonhaven 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 myself into a disruption because I thought I could force my way into that alliance by becoming a necessary variable." A pause. "I was wrong about the mechanism. I'm not wrong about what I want."
"You want a seat at the table," I said.
"I want to earn one. I'm offering something real — the original charter, everything I found in the operation, and the name of the person who removed the section when I fi
