Haven’s POV

Neglect is a quieter kind of cruelty. Neglect simply removes you from the world inch by inch, until you are standing in the same place as everyone else and yet somehow already gone.

That was how Aiden treated me now. As if I were already dead.

He no longer looked at me when he passed. I had become air, something brushed aside, something that only existed when it obstructed his path.

And that hurt far more than hatred ever could.

I was still locked in the isolation facility, ...