Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-4830106-20140815221650

No, I think Cinder is Roman's employer. His employer, which means he reports directly to her. That is not to say he couldn't somehow be working with Winter, but not for her. Although it wouldn't really make sense for him to be working with the SDC and the White Fang, unless his intention was to play them off each other and create a war with massive destruction on both sides, thereby creating a power vacuum for Cinder to step in and....

...Dear god, I think I just figured it out.