EDWARD’S POV
Rio shrugs. “What? To everyone, Layla’s your mate so she’s technically…”
I click my tongue and look away, even knowing he’s not entirely wrong. Even if it’s fake, and the arrangement has an expiration date that I control, to everyone else in Camden, Layla is mine.
And a reckless part of me has started thinking that if anything actually happened to her, I’d never recover from it completely. I keep thinking about what would have happened if I was five minutes late. If Oakie had gone down swinging and there was nothing left by the time I got there.
Layla, who keeps giving smiles to a world that’s handed her almost nothing back, would be gone. She can be annoying and weird but if something happened to her, I think it would break something in me that wouldn’t go back togethe
