Chapter 168

Lyra's POV

I knew those words had been said from a place of hurt. His eyes looked like they were about to release a major stream and watching him cry because of me was definitely heart breaking. It was funny how everything had turned around. It was I who was supposed to be angry, who was supposed to be pleading with but the ghost of my affairs from the past had surely caught up with me.

Looking at how he was behaving over the issue of me coming in between his friendship with Tristan made me wonder if I had ever had a friend like that. Philip obviously loved me and I could see it in everything he did. For him to be mad at me over something like this when he had not been angry that I had almost slept with Asher nor was he angry when I left him because I had hoped that Asher was mine, meant that he really cared about this friendship he shared with Tristan.

I wondered how he managed to stay friends with someone who was so toxic that he had to.embarrass his best friend in a room full of ot