Se connecterJasmine's POVI watched Rowan pull Iris closer to him and adjust the blanket over her with one arm. Iris tipped her head back and said something that made him almost smile, and I sat on a sofa opposite them and felt something warm settle in my chest.He had found it.After everything. After Raven, a
Iris’s POVAbout twenty minutes later, Jasmine appeared in the doorway.She looked different from the last time I had properly seen her. The distant, distracted look that she had had for weeks was still there, but it was quieter now. Like she had come to some kind of decision and it had given her a
Iris’s POVRowan was silent for a moment. Then he said, "She's dead."My eyes widened slightly at that.I waited to feel something. Maybe guilt, or sadness, or at least something that would make me feel like a decent person.But what I felt was intense relief. And I didn't feel bad for it."The inju
Iris's POVThe first thing I saw was the incubator.It was beside my bed. It was close and low enough that I could see her clearly without any effort. She was small, wrapped in a pink blanket with only her face showing.My throat tightened.She was beautiful.I don't know how to fully explain what l
Iris’s POVThe darkness didn't feel empty.It felt warm, soft, and safe. There was no pain here. No fear. No yelling.Then light came.It was bright and gentle.I was standing in a room that looked familiar in a way that made my chest tighten.Evie's room.I knew it immediately. The same pink walls.
Iris’s POVRowan was standing over her, breathing heavily, still half shifted, his hands were dark with her blood. Chloe was on the floor and she was not moving. She was alive. I could hear her shallow breathing from across the room. But I almost didn’t recognise her. Her face was swollen. She was f
Iris's POVWhen I woke up the next morning, my body still ached from the exhaustion of the day before. For a moment I just lay there, staring at the ceiling.Every part of me wanted to stay in bed, hide under the blanket, and pretend the world outside didn’t exist.I had several reasons not to go to
I turned. The blonde from earlier, Chloe, the one he had announced as his fiancée, stood at the front row. Her pale blue dress glittered as she sauntered toward us with a bright smile on her face.“If he’s Iris’s husband,” she said sweetly, “why keep him away from her? Maybe what he needs is to talk
Iris's POVWhen Shane and Jasmine came back, I wasn't packing again.I lay across the scattered clothes on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. My face was sticky from dried tears. I wasn’t even pretending to pack anymore.Jasmine’s sharp sigh told me how bad I looked.“Iris,” she whispered, com
“It’s worth trying,” he said. “If there’s any chance of understanding what happened, what went wrong—I need to know.”I nodded. That made sense.We walked a bit further in silence. Then Eric said, “Do you remember that time Jeremy convinced us to go on that camping trip and we got completely lost?”







