Aiden POV
I stayed outside longer than I had expected, not only because of I had waited for Iris’s scent to fade off or because I was feeling uncomfortable to go back in there after the awkward scene my family had pulled off earlier on but mostly because I was drained off my energy and my social battery was really low and was about to shut down.
To be honest, without Calista’s amazing social skills, I wouldn’t have been able to talk to half the people I’d met upstairs. If there was one thing she was good at, it was making people like her.
She knew the perfect things to say and when to say them. She knew all the manners of smiling to draw different reactions from different kinds of people. Although I was well aware that she had been trained by her mother, how to relate with the high an
