Chapter 42

The moment Samantha heard Leonardo's name, her body stiffened instinctively. Layla immediately held onto her wrist. "What do you think, Samantha?" Caught off guard, Samantha blinked. But faced with Layla's expectant gaze, she nodded without hesitation. "You're right!" "Right about what? You weren't even listening! What's up with you?" "N-nothing." "You're stammering. That's definitely not nothing!" Samantha struggled to find the right words, so Layla simply sat beside her, waiting patiently. "Come on, tell me. What's there to hide from me, your best friend?" After a long internal debate, Samantha caved and told Layla everything—about how she'd been trying to get Leonardo's help and the past few weeks of struggling to figure him out. "Wait, what?" Layla was shocked when she learned that Samantha actually had Leonardo on her contacts list. When she found out Leonard was the one Samantha had been asking for help, she was appalled. After agonizing internally for quite a while,