Chapter 68

Layla got home feeling very tired, she went straight to her room as she needed some rest.

After freshening up and eating some seafood, she began to ponder about what happened at the office today.

It felt so strange.

Before she went out for lunch with Xander. The reports were intact. She had left them on the table after she finished working on them.

As long as she could remember, she didn't go near the shredding machine, not to talk of even placing the reports she had worked so hard on there.

She wouldn't even think of punishing Nolan, or paying him back with evil.

Though he had not been so nice to her, she would never think of doing such to him. She had never thought ill of anybody. Nolan was her mate, how would she do anything that could sabotage his business?

Everything was so confusing for her, she just couldn't comprehend how it happened because she was very sure she had left the reports intact and she never went near the shredding machine.

Then how?

She felt so sad that Nolan didn't believe that she had nothing to do with it and he even sent her out of the office. She hoped that he didn't fire her at the end of the day. Because she needed to save up.

"How did it happen?" Layla creased her brows curiously. It was all so confusing.

There was no way the reports could have teleported to the shredding machine by itself. No doubt someone was behind this.

"But who? " Layla questioned herself over interested in the matter. She had to prove her innocence. Now Nolan would be thinking more badly of her.

"No one entered my office.." she mumbled. It was lunch break, everyone was out for lunch. Then who?

And no one walked into Nolan's floor freely, only limited people were allowed to come to his floor.

"The only people allowed are me as I am Nolan's secretary. Xander, Bertha also. Though she comes very rarely, then Carla but Carla doesn't work in Nolan's. Carla.." Layla instantly sat up from the bed as she just recollected that Carla was the only one that went into Nolan's office after she left.

"But how could Carla..no, no.." she quickly waved that thought off, there was no way Carla would think of doing such. Layla reasoned.

"What if she really did it? Carla is the only person that went in after I left. But why would she do that?" Layla was utterly confused about that.

But then she remembered that Carla has never liked her from the start and just started acting nice to her. What if Carla actually did this to punish her.

Not wanting to think about it, Layla decided to wait for Nolan to come back. She wouldn't rest until she proved her innocence.

Yawning loudly, she laid back in the bed, feeling kind of relieved that Nolan told her to leave.

She had never had the time to rest because she was always working. This could be an opportunity for her to get some rest.

Layla woke up in the middle of the night to get some water. She saw Maddox sleeping in the living room but from the look of things it seemed as if Layla wasn't around.

She wondered why he wasn't home. Brushing that off her mind, she grabbed a glass of water and went back to her room to go back to sleep.

At a bar where music popped out as people danced as they had fun. In an enclosed corner was Nolan and Xander with a few bottles of drinks on a table in front of them.

"So tell me man, why have you decided to come out here today?" Xander asked and he whispered something to the lady beside him.

She smiled brightly before planting a kiss on his cheeks then he stood up to leave.

"Just to cool my head off.." Nolan responded ygulping down all the bourbon in the glass he was holding.

"What? You have a Luna at home. You can cool off with her.." Xander chuckled sheepishly.

After what happened today, he became convinced that Layla and Nolan were having a problem with their relationship. That must be probably why she didn't want to tell Nolan about it.

They both started on a rough path.

"Shut up!" Nolan snapped at him, taking another glass of bourbon.

"I'm gonna cool off at your place for a few days.." Nolan informed filling his glass for the third time .

"Wait! Now you're scared to go home" Xander exclaimed as he grinned.

"Did you guys have a fight?" Xander grilled curiously as he nudged Nolan's shoulders.

"No we didn't.." Nolan rolled his eyes, filling his glass up again.

"That's a lie. You both must have had a fight. You like Layla don't you?" He raised his brows at Nolan.

"No!" Came his blunt reply.

"Then why did you mark her, you should have just gone on with the rejection and saved yourself from all this stress?" He reasoned.

"Stop asking me stupid questions about my personal life and do something else instead " Nolan began dropping the cup on the table.

"And what's that?"

"Find out everything about Layla. About her life in Seattle. Everything she did, where she schooled. Find out basically everything about her and most importantly why she left Seattle" Nolan requested. Why would she leave her family to come live here?

Now he had become very curious to know all about her.

"Why are you so eager to know?" Xander grilled. If Nolan does a background check on Layla, no doubt he would find out about her pregnancy.

"Don't I have a right to know more about my Luna anymore? Huh?" Nolan asked in sarcasm with his brows raised up.

"But I thought you don't like her?"

"Just shut up and do as I instructed.." Nolan stated.

"I feel like she's hiding something from me" he added in a low voice, picking his glass up from the table as he continued his drinking.

Whatever Layla was hiding, he would make sure to find out about it.