LAYLA

I didn’t go to the garden.

For like… two days. Maybe three?

I lost track, honestly. Everything just blurred.

After the ceremony, after that moment, Del stood there beside her, smiling like I didn’t exist… like I was invisible… something inside me just broke. Or maybe it had already broken and that was just the final snap.

I couldn’t eat.

I couldn’t cry either. I drove all my maids away and prepared my sauna bath myself and stayed on the floor, crying myself to sleep

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