Darya was tired of lying in bed. Magda had gone home to have dinner with Ares and Pearl. Sienna was off visiting her mother at the nursing home. Mrs. K was cleaning elsewhere in the house, or doing whatever it was housekeepers did when they had to look after a mansion.
It was after five in the afternoon, and she was bored. The doctor had voiced his opinion to request she stay another night. Dimi had sided with her to go home on the condition she would remain on bed rest one more day under the family’s careful observation. She would have argued more but she was still nauseous as hell. She had barely kept a thing down.
She felt her phone vibrate in her hand and glared at the screen. Lyra. Again. Now she knew what her sister wanted it was taking all her strength not to tell her to go f**k
