Second Chance Mate
I could hear his heavy breathing now, and then he said, “It’s the right person who has left this void, Layla.”
His words hurt me at that point, it stung my heart, but I didn’t let go of him. Ariah, Ethan, and I had been enmeshed in a love triangle where I was the only one lacking love. Now that I had untangled that complicated love triangle, I knew that it would take Ethan some time to adapt to…well, to me.
“Then let someone else deserving into that void,” I said, tracing invisible lines on his chest.
“And that’s you?” He asked, I wasn’t fazed by the directness in his tone.