Even After Death Novel (Olivia)

Chapter 29

Tears streamed down Olivia’s cheeks.

She knew that she and Ethan could never go back to how things were before. He had betrayed her and destroyed the Fordhamns, and the Fordhams owed him his sister’s life.

Those debts could never be settled. Trying to resolve them would only serve to tighten the knots of their relationship, suffocating them and leading to an inevitable end.

Ethan held her face in his hands, wiping away her tears with his cheeks. “Liv, don’t love me. Hate me instead. t betrayed you, I killed our child, and I can never turn back.”

She sensed his inner turmoil, but amidst that, she could feel the tenderness he still had for her like a calm oasis in a turbulent desert sandstorm. However, she knew that the oasis would soon be destroyed by the raging winds.

leaving Olivia behind. Olivia

Burgess had always believed their conflicts to be petty

singular and rightful Mrs. Miller, hence she

wasn’t until

pot of chowder Madam Burgess had made waiting in the kitchen. Olivia poured herself some into a bowl. The steam from the pot veiled her

expression was calm. She had found a solution to the exhausting game they

my father owes you,” she thought to

decided to enjoy the remaining

was certain that he would no longer be burdened by hatred and his conflicted. feelings upon her

He would have the beloved wife and a child he had

the fact that she would be gone, everything would be fine, and that would be wonderful. Olivia suddenly felt the chains

from her own constraints.

return, and the Miller residence was

up early for the first time after confining herself to the room for so many days.