LAYLA’S POV
Alpha Strout was right about one thing: love does make you do stupid, horrible things you never thought you’d be capable of doing.
I tried giving Edward a choice without telling him what he was choosing, and that only made everything worse because he gave me exactly the answer his father said he would.
And if that’s what he chooses now, when he doesn’t even know I’m his mate, I don’t want to imagine what happens when the veil disappears and he does.
So I guess Alpha Strout was right about something else too: if Edward won’t protect himself from this, then I have to do it for him.
I glance down at my watch again and immediately wish I hadn’t.
Edward is going to start wondering where I am soon.
My fingers tighten around the fabric of my dress beneath the table, bunching it
