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CHAPTER NINETY

Author: Abby Gale
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-09 21:40:58

Lyra’s POV

I didn’t know how long I had been running.

The branches whipped against my arms, my face, cutting my skin as I stumbled deeper and deeper into the forbidden forest. My chest burned, each breath felt like fire through my lungs. Tears blurred my vision, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t stop.

Not when the image of Garrick’s broken body was still burned into the back of my eyelids.

“Monster,” I choked out between gasps. My own voice sounded foreign, broken. “I’m a monster.”

The words came out again and again, spilling from my mouth like venom, until they became the only thing I could hear over the pounding of my heart.

I collapsed to my knees at one point, my hands shaking violently. I looked down and—gods—his blood. It was still there. Dried into my fingernails. Staining my palms. Smearing my wrists.

“No!” I screamed, clawing at my skin. I scraped and scratched until it burned, until it stung, but I could still see it. His blood. His blood because of me.

They were on my hands.

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