Iris:
"She is gone," I said quietly.
"Wait, what?" he questioned, shaking his head as he leaned down and placed his hand on the window sill to hear me better.
"She had to go back into the woods. Her father is sick," I lied, turning my head toward the window again.
"And what about you? Why are you so down?" he asked, his voice lowering.
I did not respond. I could not. For a moment, I wanted to disappear.
What I went through last night stayed with me, and no matter how hard I tried to push it away, I could not.
Not only was I hurt, but others suffered my mother's actions because of my single mistake of getting intimate with Kash.
"Iris," he said as he gently placed his hand on my shoulder.
I slapped his hand away and stepped off the window sill, moving away from him.
That reaction came from the discomfort I felt after everything that had happened.
The way Kash was looking at me, along with my children, made me realize what I had just done.
