Aaron’s POV
I ignored Amy the moment I stepped into the hallway. Her presence alone was enough to make my fists clench. She had stood there silent when Stuart spun his lies, letting everyone believe I was unstable, letting them treat me like some fragile bomb about to detonate. And now? Now she had the nerve to grin at me like nothing had happened.
“Oh, you wouldn’t believe what I’m about to show you,” she said while bouncing on her toes like this was just nothing at all.
I brushed past her without a word, with my jaw locked tight.
“Aaron, wait!” she called after me with her voice too loud and surprisingly too bright.
I kept walking, but then she grabbed my arm with fingers digging in.
“We need to talk.”
I stopped and slowly turned. The hallway around us had gone quiet with every e
