Seeing all escape routes blocked off, Aria completely lost it.
She suddenly began frantically tearing at her clothes, ripping her already rumpled white coat into tatters.
"Don't arrest me!" she shrieked. "Someone wants to kill me! Victoria wants to kill me! I don't know! I don't know anything! There's something wrong with my head!"
She was attempting to evade the impending criminal punishment by pretending to be insane.
Just as the scene descended into chaos, Aiden, who had been hiding nearby, suddenly moved.
He rushed up to me in a few strides, spreading his arms to embrace me.
I sidestepped, causing him to lunge at empty air and fall awkwardly onto the desk.
Aiden got up without the slightest hint of embarrassment. He looked at me, his voice breaking as tears streamed down his fac
