Thorian’s POV
My eyes moved across the pages, but none of it was going in. The numbers and figures blurred together while my mind stayed stuck on the same thing it had been stuck on since Lyra disappeared. I kept seeing her — her smile, the way she laughed, the light in her eyes.
I pressed my fingers against my temples and tried to pull my focus back. It didn’t work. My thoughts kept sliding back to her. Where was she right now? Was she okay? Did she think about me the way I thought about her?
The office door eased open and Soren stepped in. “Hey, Thorian. How are you holding up?”
I pushed the reports to the side and exhaled. “Honestly? I’m falling apart. I can’t get her out of my head.”
He looked exactly how I felt. None of us had been ourselves since she went missing. Sleep had beco
