Chapter 15: "Was it because of Ryan?"

Layla’s pov.

I wake up in the room this time.

Unlike other people who wake up disoriented after fainting, I wake up quite lucid, and I have passed out several times, so I should know.

Sometimes I pass out from sleep deprivation, from general weakness, from a lot of things.

Ryan’s question rings in my mind because that’s what caused all this, and now as I hear it again, I can't help but wonder why I felt the way I felt when he asked me that question.

~What happened between you and My father?~

A slew of curses was already on my lips at the sound of that, but I restrained them, and I realized that he doesn’t know.

Ryan has no idea what I suffered at the hands of the man he calls his father.

Ryan Earl doesn’t know his father is a monster. Not a man.

The man was a facade, an illusion he put on to fool the public.

Three orphanages here, two shelters for the homeless there, those are the actions people will remember him by, but not me.

To Ryan, his father is just a man who didn’t