CHAPTER 174: Extraction

LYRA

Click. The line goes dead after that. My breath races before I quickly drop the phone back onto the table. They haven’t left. The council hasn’t left the territory, they’re still here, still watching and still waiting.

Something inside me rattles, and I’m not sure what it is.

My restraint starts to thin as his words repeat in my head. They want me unstable, they want me to snap, and somehow,