**Lysander's POV**

I shove Chloe away from me.

Her lips had barely grazed mine before revulsion surged through my entire body. The taste of her—the desperate, manipulative hunger in her touch—makes my stomach turn.

"Don't think you can escape your crimes with such pathetic tactics," I tell her coldly. "You will pay for what you did to Gaia."

Chloe stumbles backward, her face crumpling with shock and hurt. Tears spill down her ...