Chapter 80
- With an intake of breath, he pulled back, his eyes wide. He looked at her face, pink in the warm firelight. “What did you say?” he choked out.
- Lyra’s eyes were luminous as she looked up at him with a trembling smile. Then she said the words again, and it was like the home he’d dreamed of his whole life. “I love you, Viktor .”
- “But—you can’t.” He realized his body was shaking all over. “You don’t.”