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