CHAPTER 18

Chapter 18{I think?}

The last time I had been home, I had been attending the funeral of my aunt Layla.

Cancer, they said.

And although she had been sick for a while, and we knew that her death was imminent, it wasn’t any less painful when it happened.

In fact it broke my heart much more than I could ever have imagined because she was such a sweet soul, she didn’t deserve to suffer like that.

Like my mother, her only sister, she also loved to drill me about finding love and eventually getting married, but while mum’s reasons had been religious, hers were simply out of pure concern that I might end up like her. Sick and alone.

Now here I was, about a year later, showing up with a fiance just like she had always wanted, and I couldn’t help but think that if she was here, she would have been so proud, provided of course that she didn’t know the details of my so called marriage. Still, I would have loved to give her that satisfaction because heaven knows I loved the woman.

“Are you ready f