#Chapter 99: Smells like trouble

“Are you upset?” Alexander watched me nervously as we finished eating breakfast. “I’m fine,” I said again. “But it does not seem like Iris is paying you much respect, Alexander. If you told her last night to give us space, and the very next morning she blows up your phone like that.” I could feel his energy was becoming frustrated. He was trying very hard not to let it out. “She is not going to change overnight,” he said. “Fair enough.” Maybe Alexander believed that a grown woman was going to change and improve her inappropriate behavior. It was wishful thinking. Because he thought she was important for his investigation, he didn’t want to believe that Iris could have ulterior motives. But the way that I saw it, she was only just getting started on her little campaign to stir up tension and distraction between me and my fiancé. Who she clearly wanted for her own. That woman positively reeked of trouble. Alexander was in denial if he didn’t smell it. He suggested we