Chapter Sixty-Six
* Shattered Moment*
Alexander stood frozen in the doorway of the grand salon, the image of Lyra and Xami reflected in the mirror burning his eyes. The hollow shame twisted back into a raw, spiking pain. He couldn't just walk away.
He pushed forward, his vision tunneling on Lyra. He didn't see Marco’s horrified expression, or the assistant’s gasp. He didn't see the security guard Marco had quietly summoned now standing in the shadows.
He walked right into the room, his shoes loud on the polished floor.
Lyra’s eyes, so soft and sure a moment before, snapped to him in the mirror. They widened in shock, then flooded with ice.
Alexander stopped a few feet from the platform. His own reflection in the mirror looked pathetic next to Xami’s—a rumpled, red-faced man in an off
