CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
"Use me."
Dimitri looked up from the ledger like she'd struck him. "What."
"You heard me." Lyra stood at the window still, the rose garden dark below, but she'd turned now, and there was a steadiness in her voice that surprised even her. "If Mace wants me to lead him to the ledger, then let him think I'm going to. Give him a reason to come out of hiding. Give your men a chance to end this instead of just reacting to whatever he does next."
"No."
"You didn't even think about it."
"I don't need to think about it." Dimitri closed the ledger, the sound of it sharper than she expected, final. "The answer is no."
"That's not your decision to make alone."
"It is exactly my decision to make." He stood now too, and the careful distance he usually kept between them had colla
