~Lyra~

Camilla’s head snapped up so fast her earrings swung sideways. Her face was blotched with red and black from all the crying.

“Your house?” she repeated, and her voice cracked with disbelief. “Are you fucking kidding me, Lyra?”

She laughed. It wasn’t real laughter. It was the kind that comes from losing everything in a single sentence and not knowing where to scream first.

“You’re a guest in a house I decorated, in a life I built from the ground up. ...