Chapter 162

Lyra's POV

I couldn't say exactly how I felt when I heard those words. But I knew that my whole body felt like I was tossed into an ocean with my ankle tied to a boulder and I sank down, my fingers wrapped around my heart as my breath failed, my nostrils packed with water.

In other words, I could not breathe.

I was feeling my clothes sticking to my body and that was how I knew I was sweating profusely. I wanted to look at Philip, I wanted to turn to him to clarify if that was the truth. For him to tell me that this beautiful woman I was seeing was nothing more than his ex, the ex he had no sort of relationship with any longer. The ex he never told me about. I wanted to know if her story ended there as being an ex because I could feel my sanity slowly slipping from my fingertips.

"Oh yes,'' I heard Tristan's voice. It sounded so far away but I knew he was merely twenty feet away from me. "I forgot to mention that bit, Lyra. Fiona and Philip have a sexual relationship".

My thoughts were