Chapter 21

Adrian

"What?!"

I turned to Kael, who was quiet with a tab in his hand, and I pulled him into a corner immediately.

"What?"

"The ships took a hit, and Lyra ran away from the house."

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck! How did... How did that happen?"

"Which..."

"The both of them. The ships, her, how did she run away?"

"She made a deal with a delivery girl to leave in her clothes and bike."

God, she was going to be the death of me.

"And the ships?"

"Exploded. Two of them."

"What?!" I couldn't believe that.

"Should I shut down the party?"

"What? No!"

I ran a hand through my hair and put on a smile when some people by the corner turned their heads in our direction.

They couldn't know what was wrong.

They couldn't know, or things would become imbalanced in the system.

The power, the strength—they would all become questionable if things went wrong, and I couldn't let that happen.

"You, take care of it and keep it under wraps, and Lyra, find out where the fuck that... where she went to."

He nodded and le