STRANGER ATTRACTION
“To think you act like you can’t stand Veylor. Pretending you’re not attracted to him. Acting like we’re the cheap ones for admitting how we feel. Just the other day, you insulted us outside—in public! As if Ina, our mother’s last child, isn’t older than you!”
I tried to breathe, but the room felt too tight.
“And today,” Iris continued, “you were caught in the woods fucking that same man. How dare you?”
Her words stabbed straight through me, but before I could react, she suddenly fell silent. Her chest rose and fell once. Then—slowly—she let out a small giggle.
It chilled me more than the shouting.
She brushed the hair that had fallen across my sweaty face, pushing it back behind my ear with