The next day, Iris woke up early and got ready for college. She had decided that she wouldn't talk to Nicholas from now on. All her life she tried to please her dad, but whatever she did, he was never happy with her. Her mom had become fed up with pleasing Eric Davenport and finally gave up and shifted to her parents' house in New York, taking a ten-year-old Iris along with her. However, after 5 years, her dad sought custody of his daughter and took Iris along with him back to Houston.
Iris started missing her mom and returned to New York after completing her school. She was enrolled in a prestigious college in New York when her mom announced her plans of getting married to a man she loved who had three grown-up children. Iris, being twenty, wanted to move out and live all on her own, but
