CHAPTER 38

“FORGET ABOUT ALLAN,” Ambert said when Layla remained speechless. “Forget that I helped you. Instead, ask yourself if you can tolerate me calling you, giving you and your family gifts, sending you flowers, texting you good morning and good night, asking if you’ve eaten or how’s your day, trying to make you and your whole family fall for me. If you can tolerate those and if you can feel a possibility that you’d one day fall for me, then, allow me to court you. Get to know me more. If you can see yourself marrying someone like me in the future,” he said and glanced at her at caught her blushing and then looking away. “Then date me. But if you’re feeling about me pursuing you is still the same before, that day when you rejected me, then, say it, tell me to go away, and I won’t pursue you. I will delete your number from my phone again, so don’t be surprised to receive a who you? when you text me again.”

He chuckled and glanced at Layla and saw her with her head slightly bowed down, as