Chapter 15: Ayla's POV
Working as a model with Vivida Cosmetics, living at Colton's staff quarters is the best luck I've had in my entire life.
I couldn't remember the last time I felt this happy.
Suddenly, none of the pain I've experienced in the past ever mattered to me.
Not my waiting job at the Krusty Nail, not my fight with Derrick Ashford, not Elena's mother.
Even the press calling for my head no longer mattered.
I was genuinely happy.
It wasn't the giddy, overwhelming joy I'd felt with Derrick, that was always tinged with fear.
Fear of his moods, fear of his trauma, fear of the press, fear of losing him, fear of being another failure in his experiment.
This joy was different.
This was peace.
I walked into Vivida headquarters with a smile on my face. The receptionist wa
