CHAPTER 30

THE LAST SENTENCE Yssa uttered pricked Layla’s ears like rusty needles. “He threatened to kill you?” she asked her. She felt her all her apprehensions uniting and slowly morphing into anger.

“Yes, he did,” Yssa affirmed, her voice still sounding tense.

“How?”

“He told me that if I knew him, I’d give your number to him,” Yssa elaborated. “That was a threat, wasn’t it? And he said it while looking fiercely at me. And I knew him to be a bully and a violent person and… we know how he hurt you emotionally and physically.”

Yes, everyone knows. “He went to the house earlier,” she informed Yssa.

“What did he do?” Yssa, sounding alarmed, asked.

“In fairness, he didn’t create any trouble,” she stated. “But again, he deceived me. Well, we lied to him first. Lillian told him that I was in a province.”

“I would hide from him, too, if I were you,” Yssa declared. “How did he deceive you?”

“We thought he had left,” Layla retorted. “But when my Uber arrived and I got out of the house, he was there, ne