Chapter 32: He Doesn't Trust Me Again

Lyra's POV

"What... is this?"

Vern's voice lost its usual composure for the first time.

A coffin. A headstone. A photograph.

Why was he even asking me?

Everything made it painfully clear—the same undeniable truth.

My mother was dead.

Yet he looked as though he couldn't accept it, his gaze fal...

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