Chapter 13
On Monday morning, Jayden put out a glass of orange juice and a single pill. Darren eyed both dubiously, then sighed and knocked them back like a professional drug addict.
The episode had lifted on Friday morning, but Darren had been subdued and preoccupied anyway. Jayden suspected he was angry with himself over the pills, and tried to derail any negative thoughts, but it was hard when Jayden was upset too. He hated having to do this. He hated having to rely on drugs to keep Darren safe and stable—and even worse—relying on drugs that weren’t reliable. He hated the whole bloody mess, and he hated having to insist on treatment when Darren didn’t like it, but he hated even more the potential, without any treatment at all, for Darren to…
Jayden had been at university in Bristol w
