CHAPTER 55: 55-HE OWNS ME NOW

Iris:

He jumped onto the bed and tossed the blanket aside as he rushed toward me.

I ran to the other side of the bed, and he chased after me.

I scrambled across the bed toward the door, but he grabbed my leg, making me fall back onto the mattress.

Then he started crawling on top of me.

"Stop! What the fuck are you doing?" he complained as I tried to go through his phone to find her number.

I had thought they would be communicating constantly, but I guessed he was clever, always clearing the conversations.

Or maybe, because we fought so much, her name had passed before my eyes until I finally found her number.

I tapped it once to call, but before the call could connect, he snatched the phone from my hands and cut the call.

He then locked the phone again and threw it across the couch, far away. The struggle didn’t stop.

I had imagined he would get off me, but instead he held both my wrists and pinned them to my sides, forcing me to stare at his face with wide eyes.

"What are you doing? Get off me!" I struggled under him, trying not to meet his gaze while he remained frozen on top of me.

"Since when did you become so mischievous?" he asked playfully rather than angrily about me calling her.

"You don’t need to know me," I replied, turning my face to the other side.

I knew he was watching me, but why he wasn’t getting off me remained a mystery.

"Why did you leave?" he asked suddenly. I frowned, looking at him.

"Was it that easy to move on from me?" he continued, surprising me.

"One would think after so many years you would have pondered what you did wrong." I clicked my tongue in disappointment.

"Kash, I guess I was right when I left you, because I realized you would never understand my feelings," I said softly, noticing how his grip around my wrists began to loosen.

"If only you had stayed, you would have realized I never meant to leave you." he paused.

"For Lara," he replied, still sounding so ignorant of my feelings.

"It doesn’t matter whether you had kicked me out or not. Even if you had asked me to stay in the main bedroom and kept her in the guest room, it would have meant nothing." I paused, swallowing the pain from that time. "You left me the day you brought her back into your life."

I finished watching him close his eyes, and his hold on me tightened again.

He brought his face closer and then uttered, "The truth is..." That was when someone’s arrival silenced us both.

My head snapped back, and my eyes moved to the door, where a man stood. Kash lifted his head from me to look in the same direction.

"Honey, what is going on here?" The man standing before me was none other than my supposed boyfriend, Luca.

After Luca arrived, I awkwardly started to wriggle under Kash, and he got off me.

He first rose onto his knees on the bed, and then I crawled away from him.

Luca reached the bed and held my arm to help me get off.

Once I did, I quickly freed my arm and stepped back, looking between Kash and Luca.

"What is going on here?" Luca asked, sounding offended.

"I fell with Kash landing on top of me by accident," I considered making up an excuse, even though I knew the truth, I didn’t need to lie to him.

But a lie was a lie, and my mother had planned to place Luca in my life, so I had to continue the story or my son would suffer.

Kash paused for a moment before getting off the bed.

He walked aggressively around it, grabbed his coat and phone.

Kash paused between Luca and me for only a few seconds.

In that brief moment, he turned to me and gave me a look.

There was so much sadness in his eyes that, for a moment, I couldn’t meet his gaze.

I felt as if I were truly responsible for his heartbreak, even though I knew that wasn’t the truth, that he had no reason to question my loyalty or why a man was standing in my bedroom.

But the way he stared at me froze me for a moment.

"Oh, you’re Alpha King Kash, right?" Luca asked, hands in his pockets, but Kash didn’t respond and stormed out of the room.

Luca comically stretched his neck to look after Kash and yelled,

"What the heck was that, Iris? Why is it that I’m coming back home and finding you with your ex?" He immediately drew his neck back and smirked at me, while I gave him a very stern look.

After a few seconds of silence, I rushed out to check if Kash had left, and sure enough, he was gone.

Once I locked the main gate, I turned and saw my mother coming out of her room, folding her arms across her chest and leaning against the doorframe.

"It’s time he has to come. There weren’t enough barriers between you two," my mother said loudly, causing me to frown.

"The fact that Lara is in his life is enough of a barrier. Do you seriously think I will ever fall for him again?" I hissed at my mother as Luca strolled down the hallway, the small hallway with my and my children’s rooms on the right, past the living room.

He came out, hands in his brown pants pockets, pouting at my mother.

"I found them in the bed together," he commented, causing my jaw to drop.

"That is a lie. I mean, sure, we were in the bed, but it wasn’t like that," I tried to explain, since my mother did not look happy with what she was hearing.

"Well, whatever it is, save it. Now Luca is here, and Luca, you have to make sure she does not do anything like that again," my mother told him, then shot me a hasty glance before strolling back into her room.

Now it was just me and Luca.

The thought that my mother had given him authority over my life was enough to make me angry.