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.

room, leaving Olivia behind. Olivia knew that this

study, Madam Burgess was nowhere to be seen. The kind–hearted Madam Burgess had always believed their

eyes, Olivia was the singular and rightful Mrs. Miller, hence

With Madam Burgess by her side, she never felt lonely in the spacious mansion. It wasn’t until Madam Burgess

Burgess had made waiting in the kitchen. Olivia poured herself some into a bowl. The steam from the pot veiled her face, obscuring her

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

debt my father owes you,”

chemotherapy, she decided to enjoy the remaining days

that he would no longer be

life, she would just have to give up her own. He

a legendary figure in Aldenvine. Aside from the fact that she would be gone, everything would be fine, and

from her own constraints.

return, and the Miller residence

confining herself to the room for so many days.

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