Chapter 157

**Lyra

“... Pay you? Threaten you? What did they promise you that made you betray us?!” Artie’s voice filtered through the fog that clouded my mind.

I moaned and struggled to get up. “Artie…?”

“I didn’t—” Zelda insisted.

“Shut up. Just shut the F*CK up. Go stand over there, I need to tend to my mate,” Artie said.

Artie’s smell surrounded me even before his arms did. I could also smell the sharp, c