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“IS THAT LAYLA?” Nancy asked him while Ambert hesitated on what to tell the manager. “I called her up before I got here. I told her we’re meeting to talk about her.”“You should have asked my permission first,” he told her, stopping himself from gritting his teeth.“Ambert, my dear,” she said, a wry smile shaping on her lips. “You invited me to talk about her without her permission.”I was doing her a favor, he wanted to tell Nancy.But could you really do someone a favor without that someone asking for a favor? What if the favor you thought you were doing for them turned out to be harmful? What if because Nancy thought that he was meddling, instead of stopping, she would hasten her plan of harming Layla? He wanted to wipe imaginary dirt on his forehead. What had he done? He felt an urge to purse his lips. But he didn’t want to show Nancy that he was being affected negatively. And when you really think about it, now that Nancy knew that he knew about it, she would think twice befor
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“I HIRED A detective,” Ambert said.He was expecting to see fury on Layla’s face but what registered there was frustration—and helplessness. “You really shouldn’t have done that,” she said in a weak, unconvincing voice. “I was just trying to amend.”“Amend how?”“Did you know what happened to her family?” Layla asked her, voice breaking.“Tell me,” he said, just to goad her to continue talking and let it all hang out.“Ralph, her husband, was sent to a mental institution,” she said, voice on the brink of crying. “Their daughter, Michelle…” She spoke haltingly, pain hovering on her face like an unwanted mask. “She almost died… she tried to commit suicide by overdosing on pills… she survived but her kidney and other organs were damaged… she’d need dialysis all her life… she’s sickly now, she even suffers from, some memory loss at times… She paused and stared blankly in front of her. “I’ve ruined her life.”Ambert already knew that and it was the most painful part of the detective’s repo
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LAYLA LOOKED AT Ambert abruptly with wide eyes. “W-what..? How?”“It was the first day of me meddling in your life,” he said, shaping a small apologetic smile on his lips.He waited for her to say something but she didn’t—she probably was too shocked her tongue had a nervous breakdown and collapsed. He pointed to the glass of water beside her. She looked at it, grabbed it and drank it. “You were there?” she asked afterwards. “Was it you who called him on the cell phone?”“No,” he said.A little disappointment crossed her face. Disappointed that he wasn’t her hero? “I thought… Where were you then?”“In my office, working.”“You said it was your first day of…”“Yeah,” he interrupted her. “A private detective was working in my behalf.”“Oh,” she quipped. “A private detective… I only hear of them in the movies…”“They exist in real life,” he said. “The detective I hired was following you that day. He saw everything.”“Was he the one who called that man?”He nodded. “He got his number fro
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THERE WAS A soft and moist and warm thing that was traveling on Layla’s skin, roaming slowly and deliberately, and it seemed, nervously as she felt it shivering a little. She was dreaming about something sweet when she was awakened by it, and it was a nice little dream largely because she was with Ambert in the dream. And in her dream, they were on a shore, sitting across from each other on a small round wooden table, just a few meters from the small giddy waves that kissed and adored the sand repeatedly. There was a bottle of champagne on the table, two wine glasses, and a white rose at the center with its short thorny stem.In the dream, Ambert, seemingly, was happy and was always laughing—he would draw his head back, his hair would appear like every strand was jumping for joy, and his mouth would open wide into a happy shape— although he wasn’t making any sound, it was like watching a muted video, and she didn’t know why he was laughing, but he seemed very happy, yes, his eyes shon
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“DO YOU WANT me to get out, ma’am?” the woman asked Layla.The woman was sitting on a chair near the door, which was closed at that time. She was wearing a white blouse with purple collar and a purple skirt and black shoes, which Layla surmised was a uniform. Layla looked around, Ambert had vanished, but she could see that she still was in his hotel, in his suite specifically, and that this woman in front of her, was employee here. What this woman was doing in the room with her butt naked, she still had no idea. Layla jerked and suddenly looked at herself when she remembered that indeed she was naked at that moment. But no, she wasn’t naked. She still was wearing the clothes she had when she rushed to this hotel, except for her shoes which were on the floor near the bed.She still was in bed, alright, but now that her lightheadedness was slowly disappearing, she now was starting to have a strong inkling that the kissing scene with Ambert which she happily—and hungrily—indulged with wa
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THE ELEVATOR DOOR closed before Layla or Ambert could react on Nancy’s sudden reappearance. “What just happened?” Anika asked, alternately looking at Layla and Ambert. “You both looked like you’ve just seen a ghost.” “That’s Nancy,” Ambert said. “The woman in red?” Anika said. Nancy was wearing a red shirt and blue jeans when they saw her approaching the elevator. Ambert nodded. “Why is she here?” Anika asked. “To talk to me or Layla.” “How did she know that you’re still here?”“She sent me a text message an hour ago, asking me if I was still in the hotel,” he said. “I said yes and she didn’t reply anymore. I had too much in my mind that it didn’t occur to me that she wanted to go back here.”“Shall we go back to your room?” Anika said. “She’d go there and wait; she knows that we’ve seen her.”Ambert glanced at Layla. “Shall we?”“Yes,” she answered. “If she wants to talk to me, I will talk to her.”Th
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LAYLA CHANGED HER mind before she could reject Ambert’s friend request on Facebook—but she also didn’t accept it. She still wanted to reject it but she decided she could do it later. Rejecting it now would be completely rude—like, what she had just realized a few moments ago, didn’t Ambert just help change Nancy’s antagonistic mind towards her? It would be so villainous of her to do things right now that would offend him. She put hg earphone down on the bedside table and lay down on the bed, turning her back on the phone to lessen the temptation of picking it up again.Where is your heart? Ambert, and Anika, would probably ask her.It had been broken, shattered and I had put it into a trash bin, she probably would answer. And she covered the trash bin so she wouldn’t hear just in case it started beating again.She looked at her clock, it said 2:40 AM. She closed her eyes, she could still catch some sleep. Fortunately, Ambert didn’t text her again, but she probably was only able to sle
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LAYLA WINCED AS Ambert started walking towards them. It wasn’t that he was painful to look at, but in her mind, she was imagining him inside a church and he was walking to towards the altar where his bride and he family were waiting. And of course she was the bride, in a resplendent white gown, surrounded by people she loved.Okay, she gently shook her head, shrugging off that wicked imagination.“Is that Ambert?” Layla heard her mother asking, though she wasn’t sure if the question was directed to her.“Yes, mom, that’s Ambert,” she heard Cedric answering. Her brother had met Ambert in the hospital after her little incident with Nancy’s car.“He’s so handsome,” she heard Lillian gushing. “Like a movie actor.”And Layla had no plans of contradicting her sister’s opinion. But what was Ambert doing here? Anika told her a chauffeur would fetch her. Was Ambert’s driver too busy to be bothered fetching her? No, Ambert’s driver would drive to the moon if he asked him. And her ho
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