Lyra didn’t see her so-called best friend for days. She hadn’t been summoned to the castle and she sure as hell wasn’t going to go there on her own. She was convinced that Bianca had banned her from ever setting foot there, and she wasn’t going to be humiliated again.
Lyra was seated in the library in their home trying to read when she heard a knock at the door. She had been waiting for the royal guard to show up. Her gamma guard was still there to protect her, which she found really strange, but under the circumstances she didn’t want to say or do anything else that could upset the royal family.
She told her parents about what happened because she didn’t want them to be shocked when the royal guard arrived. Lyra agreed to go with him, and when her parents insisted on coming along, she d
