Chapter Forty-Eight – Leandros Lied To Me?

Lyra’s POV

After Forty-Five Days:

I trudged towards Hazel’s house after taking the last hobby class in Lena’s school. She started evening hobby classes for the students, which had become a tremendous hit. It allowed me to earn and kept me occupied too.

It had been almost one and a half months since Leandros left me that fateful morning. Ever since I had no information about him. Strangely, Zephyrus and the others hardly spoke about him before me. I tried to find out about him, but they always gave a non-committal reply. It seemed they were hiding something from me.

Was Zephyrus’s uncle so unwell that Leandros switched off his mobile phone for days? Why did he sever all ties with me?

Why didn’t Zephyrus go to Aromania to see his family? Why did he send Leandros instead?

Everything was confusing, and I had no one to ask the questions erupting in my mind all day. Lena and Hazel were so busy, we hardly sat down to chat like before. Sometimes I had the feeling they were avoiding me. E