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.

liked. Why was I so meek now? Why was I

you or the kids, I

me to assert myself. It was as if he had already mapped out every step of my life, and I had no

my lips almost automatically,

coldness I had been carrying for so long. Suddenly,

name like that? Or was it simply because it had been so long since I had heard him say it, and now it was affecting

my voice barely above a whisper,

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