No strings Attached

Iris POV

I shouldn't feel this way staring at him with another female, her head on his back; he had warned me not to, didn't he? And I had agreed, didn't I? So how in hell could I explain this feeling trying to numb me?

Was I under a spell of some sort? Was I always cursed to be attracted to his darkness, no matter how many times he pushed me away?

Anger and sadness still tugging at me, I cleared the emotions from my face, straightening my shoulders, my voice coming out as natural, "And who told you I was thinking anything?"

That knocked him off alright, and suddenly he stopped trying to push her off, relaxing under her touch while still glaring at me.

"I guess we have no problem here, then. Why are you here?"

That same damn question, we could be through without him sounding like I was a pain in the ass.

I looked pointedly at Katherine and said, "I need to speak to you alone; if you would tell one leech to back off now...."

"How dare you?" The anger in her voice had my heart dancing a