"To kill me. And bring the Paradox back to him. Check your left coat pocket."
Emma's blood turned to ice. Control? Her handler, the voice of reason, the man who had never lied to her—or so she believed—had commissioned the very weapon she was sent to retrieve. emma hix secret agent
Emma stared at the injector. The kill order. The mission she had not known she had been given. Control had sent her to retrieve Thorne alive , but he had also armed her with the means to kill him. Why? Because he knew she would hesitate. He knew her loyalty was a patchwork of artificial memories, and he wanted to see which version of Emma Hix would survive. "To kill me