"Why should I bother telling Cane?" Iris didn't change her expression when she questioned him back. "To give you more reasons to hate me?"
Zephyr gulped down with difficulty, he felt so ashamed. He didn't even dare to meet with those blue eyes of hers directly.
"Don't worry, I'm used to enduring everything alone. Your words were nothing compared to what I have heard my whole life. It's not something new to me." Iris disliked herself right now. Being passive aggressive like this made her feel depressed.
But it was Zephyr's fault to bring up the topic to begin with.
Iris tried to forget about it, since it only hurt her badly to know what they were thinking about her. She almost succeeded in pushing that hurtful moment to the back of her mind, along with the trauma and every other horrendous thing she had ever endured, but Zephyr touched the wound again.
