Chapter 220 Nia

• Layla’s rage boiled over. No longer hidden behind her panic and worry, a white-hot fury left everything else in embers. Her fists clenched again, but she wasn’t trying to contain herself anymore.
• ‘Don’t, Layla,’ Rebecca said through their mindlink. ‘You don’t know what it will do to you.’
• Her mother rushed up to the glass and put her palms against it. She hadn't noticed it before, but there were bags under her mother’s usually vibrant face, and the undeniable strength she always sensed from her mother was gone.