#Chapter 46: An Unexpected Confession

Lyra POV

"Varn cannot be allowed to continue making these slanderous statements," my father said angrily.

"I agree," my mother added, "but we have to handle this carefully."

"I'm beginning to think we've handled it too carefully," my father replied, his anger evident.

I felt a pang of guilt. By opening up to him about my plan to expose Varn and Vesper's affair, I had placed him in a difficult posi