Chapter 75

Layla’s POV

I bit my lips again, stopping myself from saying something that would upset him. I scurried upstairs towards my room and threw open the wardrobe. I picked out a less revealing dress this time, which was a long satin pink gown, plain but elegant, and had a lovely butterfly brooch jewel. I loved the previous dress more but knew Logan did not approve of me wearing it in public. Logan had a possessive streak. I just did not know how far it went until now.

Logan explained that Nigel Moretti was his very long-time friend; they had attended the same elementary and high school and grew up together when Nigel had to move in after the loss of his mother. When I asked him about his other friends, he was not very keen on discussing them, so I decided not to push him.

Nigel’s home was a two-story Victorian mansion, vintage with gothic architecture and quite smaller in comparison to Logan’s enormous one. The house was easily a modernized Adam’s famil