The digital whisper had a name, and the name was Dr. Aris Thorne. The irony was not lost on Kael. Jax's fictional creation, the disgruntled whistleblower hired to send journalist Anya Sharma off on a wild goose chase, was now the alias of a very real, very sharp thorn in their side. She was not a spy or a saboteur.
She was a talented, compulsive bioinformatician at a top-tier Swiss institute, and she had discovered the statistical ghost in the machine.
The identical anomalies that Jax had recognized as the pack's "scent" in the Aegis code—the faint, intuitive patterns that increased its accuracy—were, to Dr. Thorne, an intriguing mathematical aberration.
She was not looking for werewolves; she was looking for a flaw in the model, or better yet, a new principle of predictive algorithm.
