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Anna was torn.
As Malinda's devoted lapdog, she utterly despised Arthur.
By extension, she also despised everyone from Creados.
So, when she learned that the leader of The Invisible was Cassandra Credos, Anna's first thought was to quit. Almost immediately, however, she dismissed the idea.
She didn't dare.
Faced with the mysterious Cassandra Credos, who had never truly shown herself, Anna didn't dare suggest leaving.
She feared that the moment she asked to quit,
those four would receive their first assignment from Cassandra: kill the traitor.
As far as she could tell, that was extremely likely.
She couldn't leave.
Yet she hated Creados.
What was she supposed to do?
Coast along, of course.
Lately, Anna had been doing nothing but slacking off.
After all, she was the only person in the security office. If she hadn't been worried about getting fired, she would already have been smoking a pipe, drinking wine, and whistling at the girls on campus.
Being young was wonderful!
They were so fearless in the face of the cold!
Even though it was only spring, there were bare thighs everywhere she looked!
Days like these made it easy to forget her troubles.
Then!
Then trouble came knocking!
That woman from Creados had issued her a private order, explicitly stating that if she botched it, she could expect to be killed-this was unprecedented. Though Anna was coasting along, she had still investigated carefully. Whether it was that dim-witted Jennifer, Jane, the crybaby who looked so easy to bully, or those two twisted lunatics, Amy and Sarah, they had only received assignments, never any threat of punishment.
Why was she the one getting threatened with punishment?
Did that woman think she was easy to bully?
Well, let me tell you, I...
was into exactly that!
Without realizing it,