Chapter 129

Lyra's POV

I frowned as our eyes met, his light cheeks turned red slightly. That was enough proof to show that he really had been listening. I should be angry but something in me was not. I somehow had become burnt out due to the conversation I had just come out of. I was incapable of harboring any form of emotion that was draining and anger was that emotion to be certain. I didn't know what to say to him, parts of me were disappointed in me. He didn't give us the privacy we required and he was the one that bolted out the door immediately I stepped foot into the room.

"Why have you been listening? Is it because you don't believe us or you were just curious to know what would happen?"

Philip shrugged, "a little bit of both".

I sighed exasperatedly but with no fire in my bones. "That's what I thought".

He peered behind me but I didn't need to turn around to know that behind me was a closed door, "so what happened? He refused you?"

I nodded my head, "I told you, I know Asher pretty dam