Chapter 38. Who Took My Place

Iris’s POV

What do you mean I have to be there?” June asked as she looked at me, like I’d just spoken in a language she couldn’t understand.

“What don’t you understand from what I said?”

“Don’t you think you’re being obsessive about this?” she shot back.

“No! I need to know who took my place!”

I was filled with so much anger and something deeper, something I wasn’t ready to name.

“Then what next?! What next?!”

I didn’t have an answer to June’s question. The truth was, I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I just needed to know.

To see.

To confirm that Theodore had moved on, that someone else was standing where I should have been.

June took a deep breath. “You don’t even know what you would do. You just had a beautiful baby, and—”

“What I do is up to me, not you, June.” I cut her off before she could finish whatever lecture she was about to deliver.

“I just need you to go there for me.”

June let out a bre