Chapter 374

Layla’s POV

I could feel Jaden’s hand on my back again, gentle and warm. He wasn’t judging me. He wasn’t trying to fix me. He was just there.

“You’re not a nobody, Layla,” he said quietly. “You’re not nothing. Don’t let him make you feel that way.”

I wanted to believe him, I really did. But it was hard. It was hard to look at myself and feel anything but worthless. Logan had moved on, and I had been left behind. I had been nothing but a fleeting moment in his life.

And now, here I was, crying over someone who would never care for me the way I had hoped.

But Jaden’s words kept echoing in my mind, soft and insistent. “You’re not a nobody,” he had said. Maybe he was right. Maybe I wasn’t a nobody. But right now, it was hard to feel like anything but that.

Jaden sighed softly, as if he understood what I was going through. “Layla,” he said gently, “you