Chapter 92

Lyra’s POV

By the time we finally pulled away from the driveway, I could feel the tension bubbling beneath my calm exterior. It was already time for our flight. The maids had loaded our luggage into the car hours ago—two hours before departure, in fact—because the airport lay so far from our home. Even with that cushion, my fingers tapped nervously against my thigh as we sped down the access road. I couldn’t shake the question that had haunted me since Valerie’s knowing look this morning: how did she discover my pregnancy?

Sienna and Audrey would never have blurted it out, not with how fiercely I’d guarded the secret. But what if Audrey had accidentally told Chloe, who then passed the information to Valerie? The thought made my heart skip. Or maybe I was simply overreacting. After all, Valerie wasn’t stupid; she could have deduced it for herself. Lately she’d been acting as though she wore an invisible monitoring device around my wrist, tracking my every move. Sti