Layla's POV
"How dare you speak to me that way! I am your mother!!"
"Are you?" I hummed thoughtfully and smiled at the hiss of frustration that came from the other end of the phone, "You are nothing more than a woman who sheltered one child and threw the other away," I said. "You managed me like an inconvenience once your lies were exposed and my fathers adulterous nature was put out in the open. You never mothered me."
"You will regret this," she threatened. "I know Gabriel is here, I bet you're already shacked up with that little prick, and when he leaves you, when the council sees what you really are…"
"Hmm? Don't mince your words, mother dearest, tell me, what am I?" I cut in sarcastically but her vile little rant had stopped midstream as she realised that once again, she
