Chapter 52. I’ll Get You Back!

Iris’s POV

The moment he held me back, I smiled.

I knew Theodore too well—knew every soft edge around him, I knew how to get him.

And if there was one thing I could always count on to draw him back in, it was this—my tears, my trembling voice.

I knew how to catch his emotions.

“No, Theodore… let me go,” I said, my back still turned turned against him as I smiled.

“Iris, this is your home,” he said softly, his hand still firm on my arm.

I turned to face him, trying to blink out tears that weren’t yet real—but they would be.

I would make sure of that. I wanted him to see pain. I wanted him to believe it.

“But I don’t feel like it again,” I whispered, forcing sadness in my tone.

“Why would you?” Lucian said sharply behind him.

Oh, God!

I wanted to slap that boy.

His eyes were always watching, always judging—always where they didn’t belong. I didn’t even understand why Theodore had brought him to the ba