Chapter 23: "The one thing i'd want from you is the truth."

Layla’s pov.

I wake up with a clear head and a lucid mind, and almost immediately I can tell that I have done something stupid.

Not just stupid, but something that is such a blatant betrayal of all I have been trying to do ever since Damien and Alek were brought in by Ryan.

I ran over to them. Instead of away.

The scene plays back in my mind like a tape and I lie here, watching it like someone who’s been spellbound to and cursing under my breath at the reality of all this.

I try to get up, but then the mate bond flares almost immediately and Damien and Alek barge into the room. My walls are up immediately.

I feel the look on my face go cold, ice cold, and then Ryan comes in, looking more calm and composed than the other two, but also equal parts worried.

Ryan walks past them and stops a few feet away from me, a good distance away that he’s not too far, but he’s also not too close.

“How are you feeling Layla?”

Ryan’s voice is cold.

Almost on cue, I remember the words I had said to him