The Return (7)

Somewhere within herself, Iris knew that she should be shocked, horrified, in disbelief, but all she could think about was the words 'straddled with their child'. She'd known that she wasn't what her aunt had wanted since she was five, but to hear her put it so crudely… Her heart bled at the thought of it.

It wasn't like she had never considered that her aunt hated her, but she was always taken care of, never going to sleep hungry or cold. That had to mean something, didn't it? Although she wasn't showered in loving gestures like others, she had still been happy. So why then?

"Did anything unusual happen while Iris was growing up? Something to prove that she was being hunted as you put it?" Kyro asked in a terse voice. He was staring up at Iris' aunt without a thought to act meek and unassuming, let her go without drilling her of all information.