CHAPTER 19

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