Chapter 18
“Knock-knock!”
Jayden looked up from his essay. Ella was standing in his open doorway in a classic black dress, offering a little smile, one hand still raised to knock again.
“You’re working too hard,” she said.
Easter was early this year, so the exams were nearly over and the semester drawing to a close, but Jayden had too much to do. His own exams fell in early April, and then there were coursework deadlines looming in May, along with the start of the final semester. He didn’t have time to go away early, much as he wanted to. Much as he wanted to go to Southampton and shake Darren until he was…
Until he was normal again. Because he was being quiet now, and not nearly as aggressive when Ella interrupted them, and Jayden didn’t like that. A quiet Darren—properly quiet, not
