The most important part that Lyra was feeling the most was the memory of how caring and clingy Adrian got sometimes, and it was something she couldn’t deny that she missed. But now she wasn’t sure whether to blame herself or her mother, or maybe she was supposed to blame her grandmother who insisted that she must marry a man. If she hadn’t listened to that, she wouldn’t have been with Adrian in the first place, and now him not being in her life made her feel like something was missing. She just didn’t understand why or what these feelings really meant. “Lyra, are you okay?” a familiar voice called out, snapping her out of her thoughts. Her mother stood in front of her. “What’s wrong?” Nola asked. In truth, Lyra had always had many questions to ask her mother—at least to know the truth of the whole matter and understand why things were the way they were. But she had never really
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