Layla's Pride

Layla Black’s reality is becoming too real for her liking. 

Life isn’t fair, there was no Santa Claus, and the myth of Prince Charming was outdated and outshone by his crude contemporaries. All these realities and more were duly driven home. Her life is augmented by ailing ambitions—and reality hits home hardest through a spike in her prescriptions’ price tags. 

Madden Kadivar rues a reality of his own. 

Fashioning his future as a pharmacist, his life lacks resonance and revelation. He is a man maligned by misgivings. The brood and bustle of his family’s business fails to brighten his days.

Until Layla blackens his nights.