Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-22580009-20131110234659

That's probably fairly simple. Cinder (still not used to that name) needed a powerful criminal to run that part of her scheme (whatever it is) while she focused on something else. She used her abilities and contacts to find Roman and told him plain and simple "You do what we want and you get to be powerful. You don't do what we want and I set you on fire." From then on Roman worked for Cinder.