Shouting it from the rooftops was an options, yes. She would have preferred that over letting them say whatever they wanted.

"Don't give me that bullshit. Do you expect me to believe you're that powerless to shoot them down?" She didn't honestly expect Sigma to be the one to suffer through 'baseless rumors' as he calls them. He was the goody-two shoes. The straight-laced good guy. If someone was spreading lies, she would have thought him to be the first to speak up.

"I'm not playing this game." She picks at the closest appetizer, moving some of the food onto her plate and using the distraction to not look at him. Her tone comes across coolly. "They're full of shit, and if they ask, I'm telling them."