“It’s okay. She’s not leaving you.” I comforted him. “I just want you to stop taking those fucking drugs.”

“I’m gonna kill myself if anything happens to her. If anyone takes advantage of her, I will take her for myself. I don’t care if I burn the world down for her—”

He stopped.

“Aiden.” I called him, but he wasn’t responding. “Aiden.”

He fell asleep on my shoulder.

I let him down on his bed, took off his shoes, and covered him with a blanket. I searched around for the drugs. Opened his drawers and saw the package of drugs. I went to his bathroom and raised the toilet lid....