Chapter 191

• Lily POV
• My heart sank. Retired? But I had just spoken with her a few weeks ago. Around that time, I and Kai were having issues with the girl he rescued. Unless... unless that conversation had taken place longer ago than I remembered. The past week had been such a blur of trauma and recovery that my sense of time might be completely off.
• "No, thank you," I said, forcing a polite smile. "I was just hoping to continue a conversation we'd started."