"I just..."
"Don't." She raised a hand. "I don't need details. I need to know your intentions."
"My intentions."
"Toward my sister. Toward this alliance. Toward the future." She leaned forward. "You have something, Satori Nakano. I don't know what it is. Neither does the VHC. Neither does anyone who's been watching your meteoric rise from zero to tournament champion. But I know it's valuable. And I know my sister has decided you're worth her attention."
Reyna squeezed my hand under the table.
"So I'm asking. What do you want?"
The honest answer would have been complicated. I wanted power. I wanted freedom. I wanted to build something that couldn't be taken away. I wanted to find out the truth about my father and the experiments that might have made me what I am. I wanted to survive long enough to figure out who I was becoming.
But Veronica wasn't asking about any of that.
