Chapter thirty-five

ACE.

The much awaited gala was finally happening tonight and here, I was in the bathroom, finding courage.

I adjusted my suit jacket in the mirror, one last time and exhaled.

I can do this.

I told myself what I'd been saying for the past few hours now.

Because the shit I was about to pull tonight was fucking scary and insane at the same time.

And I'm not sure how well it's work.

After I offered to be prime sponsor for this event weeks ago, from then on I'd meticulously planned to perfection to use it as a medium to recreate the one event I owed Layde when she was my girlfriend.

It was the first idea I had on how to know if she was really Layde, but now, it was the final step in my mind that would tell if I've been living in delusions or if it was really her all this while.

That's, If she gets triggered by what I'm doing tonight.

I know how much my past actions really hurt her, maybe that's why she was finding it hard to open up her real identity to me, but I was hoping tonig