"Will you please just give me his personal contact? I need to move quickly before some other woman decides he looks available and starts working her way into his life. I have been unsettled since this morning and it is completely unlike me, I don't know what to do with myself." Laila said, and then seemed to catch herself, as though only now realizing how much she had just laid bare to someone she had treated as an enemy not so long ago.
She didn't even fully understand why she was telling Viola any of this. But the woman was listening, actually listening, without judgment or mockery, and with the entire pack having turned its back on her the way it had, that was more than anyone else had offered her today.
"I really wish I could help, but Miss Serrano—"
