[ IRIS’S POV ]I turned on her, my voice trembling with a sudden, sharp defensive heat. “You don’t get to poison things just because you hate him.”Sofia tilted her head, watching me with a look that was almost pitying. Then she laughed, a light, musical sound that felt entirely too delighted for the darkness surrounding us. “You’re such a fool, Iris. A big one at that.”The word stung, hitting a bruise I didn’t know I had. She had always seen me that way, a naive girl playing at being a woman, easily manipulated by the men in our world.Her gaze shifted, becoming sharp and sudden, like a predator spotting a weakness. “That boy from your school. Where is he now?”The question made me pause, the air suddenly feeling thin. My chest tightened with a slow-creeping dread. “Salvatore said he moved away,” I said, though even as the words left my lips, they felt fragile. That was what he had told me. That was the lie I wanted to live in.Sofia blinked once, slowly. “He lied,” she said, her smi
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