Chapter 158

CORA’s POV….

I could feel even more tears streaming down my cheeks as I slowly raised my head to stare at them. It had been a few minutes since I said I chose to go with Layla, but no one had said a word. They just kept staring at me, and I was sure that they couldn’t believe that I would ever choose her.

Of all the people that were around, the one who was most shocked was Layla. Why wouldn’t she be the most shocked? After everything that she had done to me, after all the pain that she had caused me, after all the many times she had tried to ruined my life, after she almost tried to get me kidnapped and killed, who would have ever thought that I would be the one to choose her over my mate’s life?

“You’re joking, aren’t you?” The leader asked me, and I shook my head as more tears streamed down my cheeks.

“Isn’t there another way for me to…”

“If this is a joke, Cora. Make your final decision. Layla or the herb? It you choose the herb, you’re going to leave Layla here to die and he fucke