“You’re causing a scene,” Lucas growled. Elaine let out a subtle huff of laughter that only the three of them could hear. “What is wrong with you?”
Ayla, however, cried harder onto Lucas. “I’m sorry, Elaine! I never meant for things to go this way, please believe me!” She pushed her head into the man’s neck, weeping as she drew the audience closer with her performance.
Elaine’s eyes narrowed as the other girl seemingly begged for forgiveness. But the sick woman wasn’t so simple-minded to believe the one wailing before her. She knew better. After claiming to be terminally ill, too? What a b***h.
“I need a friend in this time of need,” Ayla went on. “Please forgive me for getting in the middle of things. But I truly, genuinely, want you here in this time of uncertainty.”
“I’m disapp
