Iridian
His eyes twinkled, “no, that was payback.”
“So, you weren’t avoiding me?” My eyebrow lifted on its own, and skepticism oozed from my voice.
“Only partially.” He smiled wryly. I pinpointed the singular thread of pain in his voice, drowning in the sincerity in his eyes. “I’ll never be able to shed the instinct to hide in the darkness, but I am trying.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat and nodded, “thank you…for trying. About the solstice party, what are we going to do? If I go looking like myself, and I am going, they’re going to know it’s not me they captured.”
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