Chapter 140

LYDIA’S POV

The next morning, the sun was already high in the sky when I finally opened my eyes. The bright light hurt my head, and I felt like a heavy weight was sitting on my chest.

I had spent so much of the night crying on the balcony and thinking about Cassian’s betrayal that my body simply gave up. I was so tired that I had slept right through my alarm and the usual morning noises of the c