Chapter Eight“Are you going to explain?” Evan asked, his face tight and guarded.
Raven pulled her eyes off of Zero, who was sitting on the end of one of the double beds in their hotel room. She was skittish, and Raven kept expecting her to run. They'd been in the hotel less than an hour, and Raven was fairly sure the only thing that kept the girl from disappearing was her exhaustion.
“She's a Sage. I found her in the woods,” Raven said quietly. “She was finishing her initiation, and there were men coming for her.”
“So, you brought her with you?”
“What was I supposed to do, leave her out there?” Raven shook her head. “Besides, she might know who our killer is.”
There was a knock on the door and Zero stood abruptly, holding her bag tightly to her. “It's just pizza,” Raven said, crossing
