The moment Samantha heard Leonardo’s name, her body stiffened Instinctively.
Layla immediately held onto her wrist. “What do you think, Samancha?”
Caught off guard, Samantha blinked. But faced with Layla’s expectant gaze, she nodded without hesitation. “You’re right!”
“Right about what? You weren’t even listening What’s up with you?”
“N–nothing”
You’re stammering. That’s definitely not nothing!”
samantha struggled to find the right words, so Layla simply sat beside her, waiting patiently, “Come on, tell me, What’s there to hide from me, your best friend?–
After a long internal debate, Samantha caved and told Laylwything about how she’d been trying to get Leonardo’s help and the past few weeks of struggling to figure it out
“Wait, what?” Layla was shocked when she learned that Samantha actually had Leonardo on het contacts list. When she found out Leonard was the one Samantha had been asking for help. she was appalled.
After agonizing internally for quite a while, Samantha admitted, “I think he might you know.. want to sleep with me..”
Layla practically screamed, “What?”
Layla was beyond shocked. She’d had no idea that Samantha had been dealing with so much lately. It left her stunned.
The sheer volume of her reaction made Samantha recoll, practically curling into the corner of the couch. “D–1 do something wrong?
“No, no, you didn’t do anything wrong–I’m just surprised. I always thought Leonardo was the type to sleep with a woman and disappear the next morning. But he’s still keeping in touch with you? Wow. I guess he got a taste, and now he’s hoolond!”
Samantha’s face burned. She grabbed a pillow and threw it at Layla “That’s not what’s happening!”
“But seriously, if or night in bed could get you what you need, why don’t you just do it? He’s hot, he’s rich, and let’s be honest–you haven’t been with anyone else before. It’s not like you’d know the difference. This is an easy way out!“”
Samandu’s eyes widened in shock “Excuse me? What kind of advice is that?”
“I’m just being realistic. We’re adults, Samantha Does it really matter if it’s once or twice?”
Samantha shot up from the couch and faked a yawn. “Wow, I just realized I’m exted I need to go to bed.” She practically sprinted to her room, slammed the door shut, and buried
She wasn’t having that cowersation with Layla. It was way too embarrassing
That night, Samantha tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. When she finally sited off, she di camed about that night–of Leonardo’stim grip asound her waist and the way he
Her fingers curled into the shots in her sleep, her leart pounding When she woke up in the morning, hes cheeks were flushed. Shaken, she stumbled into the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face toclear her head
It was the weekend, so she didn’t have class. A ŋakk g car the clock tollen in alorady left.
at do am. Samantha stepped out of her cou om and tounil the apartment empty–Layla had
There was a note on the table, “I made you a sandwich. You can have it for waktu if you wake up early lunch it you sleep in Samantha smiled, tucking the note away before g the sandwich. After becaldant, she headed to the hospital to visit Cynthia
grabbing
Cynthia lay in bed, her complexion pale, an oxygen mask covering her take. Her chest rose andiel weakly as she slept. It not for the faint color on her cheeks, Samantha would have framed
Zara stood neatly, 1
y, her expression soft with sympathy. “Mrs Newton Senios has been sleeping at apely. It’s of hot every. We can only hope she gets better.” Kamantha pove her a strained smile. Hope That was all they had left. But she knew deep down that withouqurgery, Cynthia wouldn’t have much time left.
