They Sent Me Away. I Never Came Back. novel Chapter 7

Chapter 7 

Rowan’s expression darkened. 

“Were you planning to replace Aria’s initial with your own too?” 

Lyra’s eyes instantly reddened. 

“Aria gave me the pendant. Isn’t it strange for me to wear something with her name carved into it?” 

“So your solution was to erase every trace she left behind?” Asher asked. 

“You were the ones who said you wanted to give me the childhood I missed.” 

Lyra looked at all four of them, tears spilling down her face. 

“You were the ones who told Aria to delete herself from the birthday video.” 

“Now that she’s actually gone, you’re going to blame everything on me?” 

Rowan opened his mouth to argue, but Julian cut him off. 

“She’s not wrong.” 

It had been Lyra’s idea to make everyone reveal their first-choice academy. 

But Damian had created the four fake applications. 

Rowan had stopped me from questioning Lyra. 

Julian had justified the entire deception as the best outcome for everyone. 

And Asher had been the one who forced me to erase myself from the videos. 

Lyra had wanted to take my place. 

But they were the ones who had cleared that place for her. 

Damian took the pendant from Asher and rubbed his thumb over the wolf pup that had been painted white. 

But the paint had already seeped into the carved lines. 

The initial beneath the wolf that represented me was now little more than a blurred half-letter. 

“Damian, I never meant to force her to leave.” 

Lyra tried to move closer. 

He stepped back before she could touch him. 

“But you knew she didn’t steal the pendant.” 

His voice was low. 

“You hid it in her room anyway and let us accuse her.” Lyra froze. 

“You believe her?” 

“I don’t know who to believe anymore.” 

Damian tightened his grip around the pendant. 

“Because we never bothered to find out what actually happened.”