Chapter 61

Seth, usually calm and composed, felt his voice crack after he heard Elliot's words. "That's impossible. Layla couldn't have had depression. She knew she had a bleeding disorder when she was pregnant with Benjamin, but she was never worried. How can a person as carefree as her be so troubled?" Seth felt as though he had exhausted all his strength to get the words out. But for some reason, he lost all his confidence as he reached the end of his sentence. He knew it wasn't that Layla couldn't have depression. It was he who couldn't accept this reality. Seth knew too well the state Layla had been in when she left the Parker family. She had been abandoned by the husband she loved deeply, rejected by her beloved son, and lost her ability to ever hold a paintbrush again. How had she endured all these blows? Or did she fall into depression because she didn't? He had divorced Layla in his attempt to help Clarissa recover from depression, only to cause Layla to develop the same illness, w