Chloe
I saw my life flash before my eyes. No, really, I actually saw it.
My heart skipped a beat. My ears rang so loud it felt like a bomb had gone off next to me. Every part of my body froze on the spot, too terrified to even breathe.
The door swung open, and for a horrifying second, I thought it was all over. But Layla didn’t turn toward us. Instead, she stood with her back facing the room, yelling into the hallway, “Oh, I forgot, Mom, can I have that dress you wore last week? The white one—”
She kept rambling about God-knows-what, but I wasn’t listening anymore.
I jerked away from Tristan, who was still lying there with a unreadable expression on his face, as if kissing me in the middle of a crisis was normal.
I didn’t have time to process that. I could scream at him later, but ri
