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.

her, especially in the early months after she left, she would have

Tatum would come to her, apologise to her, take

news of his engagement would uproot such

replies, squinting

everything," Leila replies, breaking into a soft sob and Kelvin quickly wraps his arms around her in a soothing hug, not needing to ask what has her in such

gently rubs down her hair, speaking to her in a soft tone.

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

you want to go back and make things right, it's okay, I'll be there for

head, feeling an even stronger wave of sadness wash over her at Kelvin's words. Why would she want to go back and fix a 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

contacts found the hideout of the rogues we've been tracking, if we can find them,

wry smile adorns her lips, knowing he's only trying to change the topic like he always does whenever

something that she missed before. The rogues that attacked her father and Trent all had the tattoo of a broken half moon on their face,

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