Best Iris Murdoch Novels Novels & Stories

A month later, the police informed me that the case was fully resolved. Adam–driven to despair after being rejected by the woman he idolized– confessed to everything. As it turned out, the moment he learned about our booking at the countryside guesthouse, he began planning the entire crime. He murdered the village doctor in cold blood, dismembered the body, packed it into a suitcase, and placed it in my car. He even hired a salon girl to pose as his lover, feeding her a script to follow. Afterward, he paid her a large sum and sent her out of the province.

It may seem as if she changed the once crazy and ruthless mafia to a calm looking gentleman. How she did it was something I couldn’t explain, I have never in my life hesitated in torturing someone. Iris happens to be the first captive I held and have not tortured. She was attractive and beautiful despite her blindness, and in all truth she was my type of woman. I wonder what happens when she gets back her sight, i might have succeeded in keep her in the dark about my business. But when she gets to see she will discover it fast because of how smart she is.

DARIUS’S POV The vault still reeked of metal and dead sea, but right then it might as well have been another planet. All I could focus on was Iris—her pulse hammering under my thumb, her skin slick and fever-hot against mine. The papers were sprawled across the desk like drunk witnesses to a crime, but they didn’t matter. Nothing mattered except the way she was looking at me, eyes dark and wrecked, like I was the only thing keeping her from flying apart.

The opulence was overwhelming, a stark contrast to the prison cell I had known before entering this world of ranking a little higher than a mere servant. But amidst the grandeur, there was an undercurrent of loneliness that hung heavy in the air—a reminder that each of us that lived here was strictly here against our will. Lost in my thoughts, I turned into a corner and surprisingly almost collided with Iris, another of Murad's pets. I had only met her once and we’d only spoken to each other once but regardless, her presence had always been like an enigma to me, and I couldn't quite decide if she was an ally or a foe.

All of this made her solitary rebellion against his orders all that more astonishing, made her private defiance nothing short of miraculous. So for six months Iris had carefully watched her sisters and seen their dreamy, zombie-like calm as they floated around doing their chores without protest or even a flicker of independent thought and Iris had copied them perfectly. Outside, she was a silent, dutiful woman-servant; inside, she was scheming feverishly and wishing death on every man who crossed her path.

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That is why he had declared the code first and not the news directly. But the one thing they forgot was that even though Iris was weaker than their lot, she was still supernatural with superhuman abilities and super senses. And this was why, despite their counter-measures, she had heard them and was standing like a mannequin as the pretty Dahlia dropped from her hands to the ground. It was clear that she was barely standing on her feet, since she had literally started trembling with fear. Dom hated seeing his mate in such a condition, but this reaction only confirmed that the facts were far more gruesome than what Iris' undercover doctor friend had told him when Dom had decided to pay Y a vi

Calmly, Gael raised his hand slowly, then he spoke, “I don’t have to lure you out to kill both of you. I could have done it in the camp if I wanted to. Take my gun, Iris. If you think I will shoot you and Colt.” “Stay beside me, Iris,” Colt ordered. “You better start talking, old man!” “You know she shot Darick. When he came and told me what happened, I didn’t want to believe it, but when Hamid spotted her sneaking out, I told him to let her in and out of the camp, and I’ll handle the rest. She did that for a couple of nights. The moment she left, I walked into her cabin, and she had supplies that didn’t come from scavenging. It was in packs; water, protein bars, tuna, can chicken, etc., lik

I regret asking as soon as the words leave my mouth, of course she doesn’t idiot she doesn’t remember anything. “Well I kind of don’t really remember watching any movies so maybe you pick one?” “What sort? Scary? Crime? Comedy? Romance? Action? Fantasy?” “Hmmm nothing frightening, maybe something easy to watch as I still have a little headache?” “Hmm ok I know the perfect movie.” I pick a rom com and we settle down to watch. We sit close together after while I feel her rest her head on my shoulder which makes me and Azell happy. I finish the rest of the movie and Iris is deep in sleep so I carry her back to her room. She doesn’t move an inch which is strange, if I didn’t know better I would

“Neither can I. You shouldn’t have disappeared on me, Iris. I was coming down to Stanford to see you when I had an accident. It was a planned murder. Everett Drexel, my adoptive mother’s brother, tried to kill me. He was the same person who stalked you that night in a white BMW.” Iris gasped in surprise. “Oh! I was right. He wanted to kill me as well.” Maddox sighed and gripped her hand tightly. “Yes, he wanted the family business. But he’s serving a prison term now. I’m glad he couldn’t harm us.” “Yes, I’m glad it’s all over. I wouldn’t have wanted Esme to grow up in such an atmosphere.” They saw Mr. Murray standing in front of his office, and Iris spoke to him. He released Iris willingly t