Chapter 54 - Personal Guard

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Maia

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"I don’t-I don’t know I was going to the party when he showed up and started dragging me outside. It all happened so fast, and I don’t know." I stutter, tears flooding my cheeks as I try to make up what happened, shaking, and Mother tells me it’s okay and holds me. She says I don’t have to talk about it, taking in my trembling state, not knowing I’m trembling out of desperation, not fear.

I pull back from the hug and beg her to please tell Father not to hurt Kyros. I tell her he saved my life, and she says she will, but I see something change in her eyes, causing me to ask her what the matter is. She says she would have never expected something like this from Dyson and that it scares her because it’s making her question everything.

"Dyson has been part of the family for so long, and now for him to have done something like this, it makes me wonder if we can trust any of the people surrounding us every day," she says, getting to her feet while my heart clen