Chapter 102. Alone at Last

Cassian POV

I hold onto Lyra’s hand firmly as we make our way toward the Grand Temple. I still feel her tension along the mate bond, but it’s much more subtle than it has been for days.

The procession ahead of us is the reason there is still any scrap left of the worry she’s been feeling—Assanan, dragged by our warriors with chains around his wrists that she had put there herself.

My own father was a good man. This man is a monster.

I wish he weren’t Lyra’s father. She shouldn’t have to live with a hell like that. But maybe that’s what gave her the strength to face him the way she had.

I’m so proud of her. She walks beside me like the Luna Queen she is, upright and confident, triumphant and respected... and eternally sexy.

Now that the fear of losing h