Chapter 24 LUCAS POV I could smell him all over her. It made me feel like I could go into her room and rip his throat out, but then I remember what she had said. “Please don’t leave me..” Those words broke something in me when I saw how she clinged to Eric. Alice touched my shoulder to take Iris, but I was the reason she was like this. I remember how Eric looked at me with a defeated expression. Eric had known her in a way that I didn’t, he was there and understood what she had been through. They shared a bond and I couldn’t deny it. Alice had talked to me at the barbeque and told me how it was abnormal for Iris just to be fine after I took a mistress. She told me that Iris needed to rest even if she was strong enough to have survived all of it. I pushed her away in the most horrible

