Bonus Chapter 17
Lyra sat off to the side of the room and watched as her sister and Kimmie bonded over cookies and missing spouses. Once again, Lyra felt like the biggest asshole in the room. She couldn’t help what she was feeling was a direct punishment from whatever fate existed to dole out retribution for past behavior.
From the time she was six and started in private school with Darya and she had immediately been pulled in with the pretty girls and Darya played by herself in the sandbox where she would weirdly count grains of sand with a magnifying glass, she had been more popular than Darya.
For twelve years, while never the head of her social circle, she had been part of one. When the girls all joined a sorority in college and she wasn’t part of it, there had been a chasm, miles
