Scarlett Rue

“I’d never even been kissed, but I hadn’t considered myself innocent, by any means.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound

“So he knows things. Things you think could help the bank.” “He knows things. He knows people.” I looked down at my hands. “And that knowledge is worth me. My future.” “Your future is Laurence Bank, Isolde, and united with Mark Trevena’s hoard of information…there is nothing the bank couldn’t do. No place we couldn’t reach, no person we couldn’t sway. We would be unstoppable.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound

“We have to think about the future differently. We have to think about this family differently, ensure our survival in more creative ways. Did Ms. Flores-King tell you what Mark Trevena used to do?” “You mean before the sex club?” My voice had a bite to it that I rarely allowed, but my father seemed to expect it. “Trevena was CIA. Special operations.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound

“So in a way, Mark has never left the field of intelligence,” my father continued. “And intelligence is a generous word for what he used to do, anyway—he was the devil they sent in to scourge the other devils. And he was the best in the world at it.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound