"With what intelligence? What resources?" Kade gestures around. "Marcus was our lead to finding her, and he's dead. The rogues escaped through portal magic we can't trace. We don't know where she is, how many allies she has, or what her actual plan is beyond 'harvest the Moon-Blessed girl.'"
"Then we get help." Luna Ava looks at me. "Isla, I know you don't trust the Alpha King, but—"
"No." The refusal is automatic. "Alaric has been manipulating me from the beginning. I won't give him more ammunition."
"He has resources we don't." She presses. "Witch hunters, magical specialists, intelligence networks. He could help us find Morganna."
"At what cost?" I shake my head. "Alaric doesn't do anything without calculating what he gets in return. If I ask for his help, he'll own me. And he'll us
