Chapter 65

• It could have been minutes later, or hours, when Lyra ’s eyes flew open in the darkness. She realized she hadn’t just given her virginity to Viktor tonight.
• She’d given him her heart. So this was how it was to fall in love. In all the books she’d read, all the movies she’d seen, she’d dreamed and wondered how it would be. What it would feel like, when she gave herself to a man completely. It was like this. Overwhelming. Powerful. Sweet and full of longing. But also… Terrifying.
• Because loving him was an astoundingly simple thing to do. She’d been dazzled by him from the moment they’d met. Infatuated before they were wed. But now...she was in love. Truly and deeply in love for the first time.