SIX
Sage wandered through the halls feeling as if everyone who passed her was staring at her deformity, whispering rumors that might lead to her death. She’d barely had time to make a name for herself at ASSET, and in a blink, she’d been labeled a pariah. Secret agency or not, all offices operated on the same social level. They didn’t need truth. Rumor alone was enough to blacklist a person. Sage was the problem child, the trouble maker, that girl. And the worst of it was she was bound by a death oath to keep the explanation to herself.
Rina was dead because Sage had outed her as a fraud bent on revenge. The attack on their office might have been because of Sage, but she had no clue the necklace her mother had given her contained the weapon everyone was after. And she hadn’t started that
