Chapter 23

LYDIA’S POV

When I stepped outside the building behind Cassian, I didn’t know what I expected to see. Maybe an argument. Maybe a confrontation. But definitely not this.

The four people who had humiliated me the day before were on their knees in the middle of Cassian’s compound. Crying. Begging.

The moment my eyes fell on them, I froze.

For a second, my brain refused to process the scene in fro