“I have to go out for a little while.”
Layla didn’t even look at him; he wasn’t sure she had even heard him. After going through her heat, they were supposed to be closer than before, but there was a canyon between them.
“Layla?”
She seemed to snap out of whatever she was thinking and gave him the fakest smile he had ever seen.
“Hmm?”
“I have to go out,” he repeated.
Her eyes widened.
“Oh, that’s today?”
He frowned at her odd choice of words. He hadn’t mentioned anything about going out to her unless she was referring to his promise to take her to see her sister. Maybe that was what she needed to step out of it.
“I mean, you’re going out today?” she asked.
She perked up a little bit. After her mini-breakdown when she had beaten Amber up, she had become distant but completely ca
