Mag-log inJasmine'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 POVToday was the sixth day of the celebration. We had just one more day to go, and I was not myself anymore.The lack of sleep, the nightmares, added with the paranoia about what had happened with Zara, all of it was getting to me. I was sick of everything.I felt like I was falling apart, p
Iris’s POVI jolted awake with a gasp, my entire body drenched in sweat. My heart was pounding so hard I thought it might burst out of my chest.My lips were tingling. The sensation of that kiss was still there, and it felt so real that it made my stomach turn violently.I scrambled out of bed, near
Iris’s POVRowan still wasn’t back.What was he confirming? Was he going to find Eric and confront him? Was he going to ask the guards if they had seen me walking through the palace in the middle of the night?I buried my face in my hands, too exhausted to keep sobbing.After what felt like an etern
Iris’s POVThe exhaustion and grumpiness got worse the next morning. Much worse.Every time I closed my eyes last night, that awful dream came back over and over again. The forest, the figure, Eric’s face instead of Rowan’s, his lips on mine, his voice whispering those horrible words.I had gotten m







