Chapter 120

Lyra couldn’t understand it. The pull she felt. That awful, electric wrong feeling.

Silas leaned in just enough that his breath brushed her mouth, warm and unsteady, and the world narrowed to something small and fragile. Her heartbeat stuttered. Not fear. Not anger. Something else. Something she absolutely did not understand.

She wanted step back, but her body did not listen to her brain.

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