Chapter 31

Iris

“I want to become stronger,” I mutter once I’m sitting in Lucien’s car. He is driving me home. Back to our roles of prisoner and prison keeper. “But like I also want to crawl into a corner and die there.”

“Understandable,” he replies, shocking me by actually giving me a sympathetic look. “Your mother died. You’re getting sacrificed, and now your friend…”

“Yeah…” I want to tell him that it doe