LAYLA Three years have gone by. Three years of power, pain and achievement.I still find it hard to believe how far we've come, sometimes, especially when I wake up to Adrielle's laughter reverberating down the hallway or feel Del's arms encircling me before the sun comes up. It feels unreal like waking up in a life that I was previously forbidden to have. After the truth was revealed after Kaelan and Faelan were engulfed by the very shadows they once controlled and after their own greed destroyed them, I did more than simply survive. I remembered how they had paid for their crimes, Kaelan had drunk poison, too proud to go to jail like his brother.Aurelia was never seen again, she just vanished.I never went back to the girl who had pleaded to be heard and seen. They couldn't stop me from returning like a storm. I didn't stop there either. I reshaped what they had burned, not just rebuilt it.All of the laws, customs and walls that once made me feel less than were destroyed and re
Last Updated : 2025-11-24 Read more