CHAPTER 31:
Ivy's POV
I left school with my mind in a storm. Maya had walked ahead of me, her shades still on even though the sun was starting to drop low.
She didn’t say much, and when we reached the street where we normally parted ways, she only gave me this quick little nod and muttered, “See you.”
That was it. No hug, no joke, nothing.
I stood there watching her disappear down the block, my chest tight. That wasn’t my best friend. That wasn’t the Maya I knew. And no matter how much I tried to shake it off, the image of that silver card in her purse wouldn’t leave my head. Lucien’s card.
It was like a brand, burned into my mind.
I wanted to stop her. I wanted to grab her arm and yell, Why the hell do you have that? What are you doing with him? But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even mak
