Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 237

distractions. No room for anything else.

“Olivia?” He called my name again, and the way it rolled off his tongue sent a shiver down my spine. It was a sound that could reduce me to nothing more than putty in his hands.

“Yes, love?” I responded, almost breathlessly, as if the mere sound of his voice could make me forget everything else.

“Do you understand what your responsibility is over there?” he asked, the weight of his words pressing down on me. There was no room for error, no room for doubt.

under the force of his question.” Yes, I do,” I replied, my voice softer than I would have liked. Why was I so meek now?

intense. “If anything happens that affects you or the kids, I expect you to

my life, and I had no choice but to follow. What was left for me to do? I was trapped in his expectations, tangled in the power he still wielded over me.

muttered, the words escaping my lips almost automatically, as if I had no other choice but to obey.

me like a warm blanket, chasing away the coldness I had been carrying for so long. Suddenly, Xander and whatever plans he had faded

my name like that? Or was it simply because it had been so long since I had heard

I responded, my voice barely above a whisper, caught in the