Layla returned home damp from the rain. She showered, grabbed a few bites of dinner, then curled into a ball on the bed, exhausted.
But sleep wouldn't come.
Every time she closed her eyes, Damian's cold, striking face came to mind.
Her fingers tightened around the blanket as she remembered the last time she had seen him 10 years ago.
Half-asleep, she returned to that night. Damian had sent her a note through someone else, asking her to wait for him in the trees behind the school because he had something to tell her.
But he broke his promise. He never came.
"Damian... Damian, why didn't you come...?"
Later, Damian's grandmother died. Not one person from the Sinclair family came—the folks of Maple Hollow arranged the funeral themselves.
That was when Layla finally gave up on him.
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