Chapter 86

• Lyra had been feeling hurt, with an aching heart, when he’d left her in his tuxedo, to go to the New Year’s Eve ball without her.
• Then she’d been struck by a thought so sudden and overwhelming that it had made her stand still. Her husband, for all his wealth and power, was completely alone. Lyra couldn’t imagine having no family, except a brother who was an enemy.
• She knew that Illyra, for all her overbearing ways, still loved her fiercely. The two sisters had each other’s backs—always. But who had Viktor’s back? No one. Who loved him on this wide, lonely earth? Nobody.