Bran found out about her and rescued her as soon as he heard94
Though Sage got along with Leah just fine, it didn't spare Leah from Sage's pointed comments109
Sage and Leah were possibly as close to friends as two very dominant women (werewolves or not) could be. Leah actively liked Sage and usually behaved herself in front of her. Sage snipped and snarked at her and about her but ultimately had Leah’s back156
Charles remembered what she’d looked like when Bran had brought her here, the look in her eyes the same as Anna’s eyes when they’d first met194
Sage didn’t look at Charles with fear in her eyes anymore. He liked her. She was smart, funny, and wise. Someone he could trust to have his back194
She was the only one who ever got to call him Charlie. Because the first time she’d said it, she’d been bruised and scared. When his father had introduced him to her, she’d raised her face to look him in the eyes, terror making her shake. Then she’d said, with hopeless defiance, “Hello, hello, Charlie.”194
Charles had never heard Sage lie before256
Leah did not allow herself to get close enough to Sage to fall victim to one of her witchy tricks as Charles had277
Had hunted with the Marrok's mate for two decades or more284
Sage was realistic enough to know that she wasn’t a match for Bran or Charles. Still, sometimes in her dreams she plunged this very knife into their bodies and heard them scream in payment for the pain she’d had to suffer for their actions. If they had not interfered in Grandma Daisy’s plans, Sage would have simply been one of the many children who had no magic and therefore served as helpers. Grandma would not have picked Sage to be her werewolf spy. Her life would have been normal. The pain of the Change, the torture of being the plaything of Grandma’s picked group of rogue wolves—that was all the fault of Charles and Bran Cornick, who had robbed Grandma Daisy of her prey and hidden him away. Even using his hair and blood, they could not find him. Sage knew now that it was because Grandma Daisy’s own half-failed binding spell, now broken, had changed the artist beyond recognition. If Bran had not changed Frank Bright’s name, though, they could have found him by his true name. All of Sage’s suffering was the Marrok’s fault287
Thinking back over all the time she’d known Sage, Anna couldn’t decide if Sage had been very good at deception or just very good at avoiding things that were lies. Maybe Charles would know. Maybe it didn’t matter anymore294
Was Leah's best confidant300
Sage's betrayal had totally blindsided Bran306