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.

helping her, especially in the early months

bad she would sit for hours, crying and wishing that Tatum would come to her,

that hope and lived like that for years but slowly yet surely, she learnt to live without Tatum again and she did not expect that the news of his engagement would uproot such pain and bitter feelings from her. "Thank you,"

replies, squinting

For everything," Leila replies, breaking into a soft sob and Kelvin quickly wraps his arms around her in

her hair, speaking to her in a soft tone.

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

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

there, ever again," she

the hideout of the rogues we've been tracking, if we can find them, we'll have evidence of your dad's true cause of death," he

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

she took of the class A archives she had sneaked into Tatum's office to get and she found something that she missed before. The rogues that attacked her father and Trent all had the tattoo of

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