Leah

The hall was crowded with parents who stood in clusters, voices raised as they blamed the school and threatened to withdraw their children. I stayed at the far end of the room, away from them, hoping no one dragged me into a conversation i didn't have the energy for.

My gaze kept drifting across the hall to where Aiden sat on the opposite side.

He was impossible to miss as he was bigger than everyone else. And it seemed people kept their distance from him because an empty pocket of ...