MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Forty eight — Fault Lines
The conflict started at breakfast.
Not with the network.
Not with twelve wolves at the east wall.
Not with any external threat.
It started at the kitchen table.
With Caius and Zane.
It started small.
The way real conflicts always start.
Not with a explosion.
With a sentence.
Caius said: "The second phase needs to happen before the network reorganizes."
Zane said: "No."
Everyone looked at him.
He looked at Caius directly.
"She is not ready," he said.
"She said soon," Caius said.
"Soon is not now," Zane said. "She was exhausted four hours ago. She slept three hours. She has a transition council meeting at eight and twelve wolves who just tried to take her and you want to trigger the second phase today."
"I want to tr
