Aiden’s POV
I needed to leave the building and get fresh air, at least. For the past few hours, I’d tried to force myself to do things I normally wouldn’t do.
I had smiled at some faces I despised and even laughed over crazy bigoted statements, all because of what? Because I wanted to be acknowledged and recognized as someone important.
Irritation crammed up in me and I developed my regular self-hatred once again. That burning feeling in my chest, that voice in my head telling me to end my own existence, that unending noise in my head which makes me restless.
It all returned and she was the reason.
Ever since I met Iris, all those things that tormented me vanished. I developed new feelings and for the first time in my life, I could say that I was truly happy.
But I guess that whe
