Lyra's POV The corridor was quiet, too quiet if you asked me and I hated how it seemed to echo in my bones with each passing second. Every step I took seemed to echo off the stone walls, like they wanted to betray me. My palms were damp, and my heart thudded hard against my ribs, not from fear, at least, that’s what I told myself, but from the weight of what I was about to do.Shit, help me goddess. Those were the words I'd been chanting for the past one hour. After Cassian had disappeared, I honestly thought I was going to lose it. It didn't help that Xavier had gone uncharacteristically quiet too. He had his back against the headboard, and even though his eyes had darted around almost all the corners of the room , I just knew he was nowhere Redmoon. Instead, he'd been in his own little world, planning, strategizing like his life depended on it. I didn't bother asking, because I knew the last thing he would do would be to tell me. Not because he didn't want to, but because he be
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