Chapter 39

Layla’s POV

Logan went on to tell me about how he’d met with his father before coming here, brushed over the things he’d said to me. He didn’t go into details but it was easy to put the pieces together. He hasn’t been with his family for years after his father threw him out. And now they want him back. So they could get a share from the fortune his uncle left to only him. It’s understandable why he hates family so much.

Somewhere in all that he’s telling me, I got to know that he actually had a younger brother that he never talks to. I could see the pain in his eyes as he spoke even though he tried to hide it as much as he could.

It was hard to eat the food I was just getting to eat for the first time and keep it in my stomach while feeling sorry for this man. I’d thought he was a monster, maybe he was, but somewhere inside, I knew he had a fragile spot, a very soft spot.

And he was showing me part of it tonight, something I had a feeling he rarely doe