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.

encouraging and helping her, especially in the early months after she left,

and wishing that Tatum would come to her, apologise to her, take her home and

she did not expect that the news of

He replies,

into a soft sob and Kelvin quickly wraps his arms around her in a

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

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

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

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

tracking, if we can find them, we'll have evidence of your dad's true cause of death," he says

smile adorns her lips, knowing he's only trying to change the topic like he always does whenever she speaks of moving on but she doesn't say anything to that

she missed before.

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