“You’re right,” she said softly. “And you were right about me. You said this w-would happen and you were right. I knew it could happen t-t-t-too, you know. I’m not an idiot. But I was trying to b-be b-b-brave.” She shrugged. And I could tell that she’d given up on this conversation, on me, from the way her arms flopped at her sides. “Maybe we c-c-could have forgiven each other if you’d apologized b-before it all c-c-came true and if I’d stopped Sloane when she t-told me they were going to g-give you a taste of your own medicine. But I wanted them to hurt you, b-because you hurt me. And now
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I don't think Cleo should've apologised first. It was Layla who started distancing berself first and ignoring Cleo.
