Naked Humiliation

Lyra's POV

"Lyra, are you going to sleep in that bed the whole day?"

Zita's voice cut through the heavy, suffocating silence of the cramped bedroom. I kept my face turned toward the peeling wallpaper, my knees pulled tightly to my chest. My cheek still pulsed with a hot, dull ache where Daphne’s heavy palm had struck me on the stairs. Anger gnawed at my bones, fierce and bitter, but fear held i