CHAPTER 231: Lost Love

LYRA

The silence stretches between us as the others leave. I can feel my heart racing in ways it has never done before, or maybe I haven’t noticed it before as much as I’m doing now.

Torin stands frozen, studying my face as if he’s trying to comprehend something himself.

She’s gone. The other part of me is gone downstairs along with Jarek and Sonia. It’s just us now. Only the two of us.

No one els