After that bombshell was dropped on her, Silas had her, as well as everyone else in the room leave. Saying something about Matthias needing rest, and everybody else needing to get dinner or something. Raine stopped listening after hearing the word lovers. Silas herded them all out, leaving Lyra and Matthias alone in the room.
Raine practically boiled with each step she took down the stairs, replaying what she saw over and over again. Matthias smiling up at her, Lyra’s hand on his lap, her face close to his as she murmured in his ear, that coy smile of hers, her gorgeous blonde hair, the fondness in Matthias’s eyes.
Raine wanted to punch something.
She managed to keep her cool until she got downstairs. The crowd was already thinning when she got downstairs, and she made her way to the kitchen, positioning herself at the spot with the clearest view of the staircase, so she wouldn’t miss it when Lyra came downstairs.
As expected, thirty minutes later, Raine spotted her coming dow
