I Married My Friend’s Wealthy Grandfather for His Inheritance – On Our Wedding Night, He Looked at Me and Said, ‘Now That You’re My Wife, I Can Finally Tell You the Truth’

By sixteen, I had learned three skills:

• Laughing half a second after everyone else.
• Ignoring pity.
• Acting like being alone was a choice.

Then Violet sat beside me in chemistry and ruined all that by being kind on purpose.

She was the kind of pretty that made people turn toward her. I was the kind of girl teachers skipped over.

I was never the girl people noticed.

But Violet never treated me like a project.

“You don’t see how special you are, Layla. Seriously. You make me laugh all the time.”