Chapter 84

Layla’s POV

I let myself go, safe in his embrace. I slid toward sleep as he held me tightly...

The next morning, I woke up to Logan’s face and bare chest as he sat watching over me. He gave me a genuinely sweet smile before asking us to eat breakfast. As we walked out hand in hand, it started dawning on me that I was about to take a bold step in my life, and I was not even twenty yet. I would be twenty in two months’ time, but still, that did not justify what I was about to do in a couple of weeks from now.

I had always dreamed of marrying a nobleman from a wealthy family. I guess that is the kind of fantasy girls like me have in their heads when they have lived their whole lives poor. It was merely fantasy because girls like me never meet men like that.

But I did. I met Logan, and he was everything I ever wanted in a man. Only this marriage was my collateral for my freedom. I was doing this so I could earn his full trust, escaping from him i