#Chapter 223: State of Mind

Lyra POV

By the time we got to the apartment, I was conflicted. I felt like I had made some kind of mistake in the way I handled Vesper, but it was too late to take it back.

Whatever happened next was out of my hands.

It wasn’t as though Kaelen and I had a chance to plan how to handle it. The king had given us no opportunity to prepare or even properly react. We had to act immediately, and now, I