She simply asked whether Layla was happy.
And that was when Layla finally understood something she wished she had known years earlier:
A woman’s entire worth cannot be contained in whether she is a virgin, how much of her body strangers can see, or whether she has lived every part of her life exactly as other people expected.
For years, Layla had been terrified that someone would uncover her face and expose who she really was.
In the end, the most frightening thing wasn’t being exposed.
It was realizing how long she had lived believing that the real version of herself had to remain hidden. ❤️
