“What just happened?” Sofia said steadying herself on the boat. The flames on the doors of Covet were dying down with the heavy rains. A wave slapped against the side of the boat and spilled onto the floor. Killian looked to Lydia for some sort of explanation, but she had none. She could still feel the heat radiating from her hands.
“I don’t know. They must have tried to blow us up and missed,” Killian lied. Lydia didn’t know why he had lied for her, but it felt like the right thing to do.
Marie sat down beside Lydia and Killian took to steering. Lydia couldn’t look anyone in the eye at that moment. Everything she had done, every moment she had lived was for nothing. Worse than nothing, if Lydia had left Arabella alone her and her mother would still be alive. Arabella had been right, and
