Chapter 8

• For a second, I couldn’t understand the words that Lyra said. Or maybe I didn't want to understand them.
• The lingering tears of relief burned my eyes like acid as I stared at my sister. How on earth could she do something so stupid?
• A hundred thousand dollars. How would we pay back a hundred thousand dollars? We were running from men already because of our debts, and the least she could do was lay low. Instead, she decided what we owed was not enough and had to add to the number.