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Chapter Forty Six

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Chapter Forty Six

POV: Lyra

I stood in the middle of my room after the door closed behind her and breathed and thought about the step back.

One step. That was all it had been. One step back when I moved toward her and it had stopped me the way a wall stops you, completely and without any negotiation at all, and I had stood there and felt the specific cold of something I had not been prepared to feel, which was the possibility that twenty years of trust had developed a crack that I had not been
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