Bring Me Back

by B.A. Paris

“No.” I repeated. But the truth was, I had been going to propose to Layla, on her twentieth birthday, the month after we got back from Megève. I’d had it all planned; I’d even bought the ring. But then she spoiled everything.

He killed her somehow

any questions and you didn’t offer any explanation but I guessed it must have gone horribly wrong for you at the hostel. It was only later that you explained you hadn’t been able to find a job and that, a few days previously, all your money had been stolen while you slept.

Please tell mehe didnt stage that

“I kept waiting for you to come to me and then I realized that you weren’t going to, that you were waiting for me to make the first move.”

Omg freaking weird

because Ellen told Tony that Layla’s happiest times had been with me, and suggested putting up a bench in a place that had some special meaning for the two of us.

Hmmmm ellen gives me weird vibes

Nothing had prepared me for what you said next. You didn’t tell me that you wanted to leave me and go back to London. Instead, you told me that during your weekend in London, you’d slept with somebody else.

Omg was it random? Was it harry??

CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

What if she is micks wife across the road lol

All those years ago, you made a bargain with her. You told her that if she could get Finn to love her, she could have him. You told her that as long as she looked after him, you would stay away, you would never come back. So she made herself perfect and got him to love her, she looked after him and cherished him. And how did you repay her? You came back. But that was Finn’s fault, I tell the voice. If he hadn’t decided to marry Ellen, none of this would have happened. Besides, he never loved her, not really, not as he loved me. Ellen knows that. She’ll understand. And the voice laughs.

Wtf

stretch out her arm. I wouldn’t have noticed a thing. I continue rifling through my mind. What about the Russian doll I’d found on Pharos Hill, how had that one got there? Ellen had been at home when I’d left that morning. But I’d gone to the cottage in St. Mary’s first, so she would have had time to get to Pharos Hill before I finally worked out that that was where I was meant to be. Had she been laughing when I’d hurried off for my secret meeting with Layla, knowing that I’d automatically assume she was referring to St. Mary’s when she said that I had the address? The odds that Ellen could be behind these nightmarish few weeks are stacking up against her. A wave of fury hits. “I’m going to check her computer,” I say roughly. “See if the emails came from her.” “Do you know her email password?” Ruby asks. “No, but I’m going to have a damn good try working it out.” I get to my feet. “But if she’s as devious as she appears to have been, I doubt we’ll find anything.” They follow me into Ellen’s study. I plug in her computer,

omg are layla and ellen the same person. Like layla lost weight, she acts as ellen and hides he true self