LAYLA:
Even if you're my mate?
The question kept going through my mind like a free flow. I have tried to get rid of it but it seems to be something that I would be thinking about all day.
Although he had told me not to bother about him saying that, perhaps to tell me that he was not being serious when he did mention it, I cannot help but think there might be a truth in it.
It would have seemed like a sloppy utterance, most likely from him being tensed. But that definitely cannot be just an utterance. There could be something else. And the thought of that scares me a whole lot.
“Are you okay?” I hear a masculine voice that has me startled.
In a slight fit of panic, I move my body away from where I'm resting. Only then did I discover that it was only Ezekiel.
I sigh in relief. “I'm fi
