Chapter 30

Rune's POV.

It's been days after Xavier's ordeal and It has been a horrible couple of days.

I had to hide.

Nowhere was safer for me than the Darkmoon manor and that was where I settled. In Lyra's room.

“It's safe now, Rune,”

That was our safe word, funny but it is what it is. I had to keep my shit together and move on to reality. If I was not vindicated soon enough, I'd be kicked out or even worse.

I hate to imagine that.

I let go of my cloaking spell and met Lyra who had her bacon turned to me and her face towards the door.

I panicked at first but she turned and hugged me.

“This will be okay, you'll be fine, we'll figure a way around this,” she reassured.

I was going to cry, at that moment I was grateful for Lyra in my life.

I held on to her tightly and muttered a “thank you,”

We remained like that for a few seconds before I broke off the hug. I was teary and it took all I had not to cry.

“Here, let's get on with this,” she said as she stretched out her hand towards me.

There was a