Chapter 44 Layla Patel ~•~ “Or you’re not ready for them to know that you’ve been lying to them all this while?” I scoffed bitterly as Lucas’s words replayed in my head. He dared to say something like that to me when he was the cause of everything. If he hadn’t been a horrible husband, I wouldn’t have had to hide my pregnancy from him. Shit, I didn’t even hide it from him. I told him about it and he called me a liar. I shouldn’t have even reached out to him to help Lily with her sickness. I would have found another way. Now he was back and pressuring me to do something that I wasn’t ready to do. How would I face the girls after lying to them for so long? I wasn’t prepared for something like that. Lucas didn’t stop calling and texting to apologize. But I wasn’t ready to

