Chapter 134

"I put Amara to bed, you need anything before I retire?" Kelvin asks Leila later that evening as she fiddles with her laptop in her room.

Leila turns to him with a sullen look in her eyes.

Ever since she tossed that paper out of the car, all she can feel is rage, five long years gone but her anger is still as palpable as the day she rejected Tatum and jumped off that cliff.

She hates him, she hates both of them and she doesn't wish them well in their so-called marriage.

What even took them five years, she expected them to have multiple kids by now.

She knows Kelvin anonymously brought it to her attention as a way of asking if she has moved on without them having to talk about it but the bitterness and anger coursing through her is unbearable. Remembering how much she fought to stay by Tatum's side, only for it to mean nothing in the end breaks her.

Kelvin by her side, encouraging and helping her, especially

bad she would sit for hours, crying and wishing that Tatum would come to her, apologise to her, take her home and keep

learnt to live without Tatum again and she did not expect that the news of his engagement would uproot such pain and

replies,

around her in a soothing hug, not needing to ask what has her

her in a soft tone. "It's okay, you're okay, just let

feeling some comfort in his embrace, what would she do without him by her side? What would have become of her without him in

and make things right, it's okay, I'll be there for you," Kelvin says, pulling away

past that doesn't want her when the chance to have a better future is right in front of her? "I'm not going back there, ever again," she replies, wiping her tears with the back of her hand. "Sometimes I think about it and feel cheated but I'm ready to love again, I want to give my heart to someone else." "Whoever he is, I'm sure he'll

can find them, we'll have

trying to change the topic like he always does whenever she speaks of moving on but she

she found the pictures she took of the class A archives she had sneaked into Tatum's office to get and she found something that she missed

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