Freya.

Jade’s face went deathly pale, her skin losing all color in an instant, leaving her looking ghostly and shaken. Her voice came out trembling, high-pitched and desperate, cracking at the edges as she spoke.

“I’ve been working in this mall for the past fifteen years and the mall had a huge sale today because of me. Do you think they’d fire me just because you said so?”

I just smirked, a slow, cold curve of my lips, but didn’t respond. We’d see about that.

My fingers flew across the screen as I quickly texted Ryder. The reply came almost immediately, as if he had been waiting for me.

“Done,...