LET ME LOVE YOU

Chapter 27 - matchmakers

Layla

"Wai ni? Ni Hafeez zai mara Akan wannan shegiyar?" I ranted, biting my finger in the process.

"Can you please calm down?" Farida, my best friend sighed in response.

"Kutumar uban calm down din!" I snapped "cant you see what the fuck happened to my face? How can you even tell me to calm down?"

"Well who's fault is it? You know very well that this wouldn't have happened if you had listened to me, but no, you always do whatever you want to without giving a damn, so why are you getting mad now? Duk ba Keh kika jawo ba?" She snapped back, equally getting fired up.

"You're supposed to be helping me out Farida, not yelling at me. That's exactly why I didn't go to my mom, and now you're making me regret coming here"

"Toh that the only way you understand things sometimes" she sighed "look, making this noise won't take you anywhere in this issue, you'll just give yourself a headache"

I sighed and then bit my lip "wallahi I'm going to kill her!"

"You're going to kill who?"

"Aya!" I replied through gritted teeth "I will rip her heart right out of her chest and feed it to her, only then will I have peace of mind!"

"Do you think killing someone is as easy as taking candy from a baby's hand?" She raised an eyebrow "and I think you've forgotten who AY is"

"What's with the glorification? Just because she has many Instagram followers? I can buy that amount of followers too right now if I want, it's not a big deal"

"You want to kill the most wanted actress and influencer in the whole of northern Nigeria who also happens to be the first wife of Thee Hafeez Talba, and you're saying it's not a big deal?" She chuckled "maybe that slap affected your brain too, and do you even hear yourself? You can't buy 7 million followers at a go, moreover, she earned her own in less that 3 years"

"Stop it Farida! Zan dura miki ashar wallahi, Just stop with the insults"

"I'm not insulting you, it's the truth, because I don't see another reason why you'd be thinking like this" she shrugged "look at the way he disfigured your face simply because you set her up, what makes you think he won't behead you when you even try to touch a single hair on her head?" She Asked "And AY is a threat on her own, forget the calmness, she will literally drop it aside and beat the wax out of your ears when you try anything stupid with her"

I sighed "So what am I supposed to do? You know very well that I've never been disrespected like that, not even my father has ever dared to raise his hand against me, yet Hafeez did, in front of his entire family, he insulted and dragged me like I was a ram for eid all Because of her, Am I supposed to take that?" I sniffed "no! I can't! I can't and I will never let anybody walk over me like that, the both of them will have to pay heavily for this, I won't let it go!"

"I already told you, making noise and Being hot headed will take you nowhere in this issue" She said "you need to be tactful and take time to plan your next move, because if you try any nonsense now, za ki sha duka neh, so you have to be very careful and ready before going back to that house"

I shook my head "I'm not going back"

"What?"

"Yes, not now at least"