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.

behind. Olivia knew that this was their

kind–hearted Madam Burgess had always believed their conflicts to be petty quarrels and had even attempted to mediate between

her eyes, Olivia was the singular and rightful Mrs. Miller, hence she was unaware of

side, she never felt lonely in the spacious mansion. It wasn’t until Madam Burgess left that Olivia was hit

already dark, and there was a pot of chowder Madam Burgess had made waiting in the kitchen. Olivia poured herself some into a bowl. The

found a solution to the exhausting

will repay the debt my father owes you,” she thought

she decided to enjoy the remaining days of her

seen Ethan’s pain and turmoil, she was certain that he would no longer

to give up her own. He would have the beloved wife and a child he had always

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

from her own constraints.

the Miller

the room for so many days. The rest had greatly improved her spirits, and Madan Burgess had played a

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