SAGE
By the way, he had ruined it… I thought, suddenly remembering Adam's statement. And his provoking question.
He knew I was Maya. Something about a mark… How had he noticed that?
Whatever, he had ruined it.
The thought burned hotter than the magic thrumming beneath my skin.
I had wanted this moment to be mine. I had wanted to peel the truth back slowly, to savor every second of dawning horror on their faces, to choose the exact instant I would say the names that haunted them.
Maya. Dora. Sage. One soul, three lives, an unbroken chain of pain they had forged with their own hands.
And Adam had taken that from me.
The fury rose fast, cracking my composure and smile clean through. I snarled at him before I even realized I was moving, the sound ripping from my throat like an animal's warning.
"Why do I hurt you?" I scoffed, my voice trembling with something dangerously close to hysteria. "You hurt me first. All of you."
