Chapter 53

Lyra's POV

When my eyes met his own. It felt kike a dream, surreal. I had initially thought that every tie I had with my family, with my kife from the past, had been washed away. I was here, and I was a new person. I had come to accept that there was no changing this life for me, and it was what I was stuck with. There was no breaking out of it, no way of going through it, and it had become the life I was forced to live.

Suddenly seeing Asher, I was shocked, and a part of me hoped that with his sudden presence, things would change for the better for me. I was sure that maybe the goddess did not forsake me. I looked at him and smiled happily. It all felt perfect. I was happy.

I suddenly felt the unmistakable attraction I had towards him, I felt the abnormal pull kike that of a magnet to an iron, and I wanted to surrender to it. I wanted to feel his skin against mine, to have his fingers caress my skin. I wanted to hold him like he was the air I was breathing.

It was as if I needed him,