LET ME LOVE YOU

Chapter 7 - surprise visit

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Bleu cafe, Abuja.

"Layla, So daman you've been lying to us?" Farida Jalli, a friend to Layla said after seeing a post on theweddingpostng, one of the most popular posts on Instagram.

"Lying? About what?" Asked Layla in confusion.

"Your 'boyfriend' Hafeez Talba is married to AY"

That made Layla choke on the macaroni and cheese she was eating "Ke Farida What kind of stupid joke is this?" She hissed "it's not funny in any way so stop!"

"Why don't you see for yourself?" Farida replied and handed her gold iPhone X to Layla, who slowly collected it and fixed her eyes on the screen, where she got the shock of her life.

"I knew it! Daman na fada! Hafeez Talba is no joke, he's making tens and hundreds of millions everyday and he's hotter than the sun in katsina, ta yaya zai gan Layla ya ce ita zai aura?; how will he see Layla and say that she's the one he wants to marry?" Another friend of Layla's, Salma Yusuf Said, agreeing with Farida "ai sai irin su AY din, masu tsinannen kyau kamar su su ka yi Kansu; he can only go for the likes of AY, those that look like they created themselves and hoarded all the ingredients of beauty"

"Gaskiya kam! AY is crazily beautiful, I even thought she was an Arab at first"

"But I thought she was getting married to his brother, Abdulmajeed?" Asked Salma.

"Exactly, I thought so too" farida replied "maybe they had a duel over her and Hafeez won, that kind of beauty is sometimes disastrous, you know?"

"JUST SHUT UP!" Layla sparked "Which beauty? Exaggerate and overate that witch all you want but She can never be anywhere near MY beauty!

Salma chuckled "Layla baby, yes you're beautiful too but let's not push ourselves into denial, I don't think anyone in Nigeria can show AY beauty!"

That felt like an arrow piercing through Layla's heart. She already knew that what Farida and Salma were saying pure facts, but she wasn't going to admit it publicly to them. The conversation just made her hatred for Aya grow even worse, it was at tender stages when Aya scattered her ego at the mall, but at that point, it developed into a full adult.

Layla could handle anything, but not losing hafeez. Not because she had undying love for him like she always claimed to, but for the purpose of keeping her reputation shiny and boasting to her friends about having Africa's most eligible gentleman in her possession. She gave her social life and status more importance than her five daily salahs, with silly thoughts about being on such a high pedestal pushed into her mind. The few months she spent with Hafeez, she had tasted power and wealth to the extreme, and that was a taste she wasn't willing to give up on no matter what as she let herself get used to it.

"You guys really think I lied huh?" She Asked, staring at Salma and Farida who were busy stalking Aya's Instagram page.

"We KNOW you lied, not think" Salma replied, not bothering to look up.

"Fine," Layla said, smirking a bit "give me two weeks"

They both snapped their heads up to look at her "2 weeks?"