Chapter 277

ETHAN

Seeing Olivia like this nearly shattered me. I had never lunagined it could get worse than when Nick sent her to prison, but I was wrong. I had seen her suffering in that place, seen the toll it took on her. I thought that was the worst of it, but this, this was something entirely different. The pain in her eyes was a level of brokenness I hadn’t known existed. She was no longer just someone who had been wronged by the system. No, this time, she was truly, irrevocably broken.

I stood outside the hospital room, the sterile, cold air of the corridor pressing down on me as I waited for any sign of clarity. Inside, they were examining her, trying to assess the damage, trying to piece together the pieces of her shattered soul.

must’ve been breaking, too. I could see it in his eyes. He wasn’t just her husband; he was the man who loved her beyond measure, the man who couldn’t protect her from the

heard it.

through the very walls of the hospital. It was a scream that could only come from someone who had been pushed beyond the point of endurance, someone who had suffered a pain too great to

kind where everything feels suspended in time. My heart raced in my chest as panic clawed at my throat. My legs moved before I even had time to think. It was as though my body had a mind of its own, pushing me forward, urging me to act, to do something, anything. I rushed to the door, throwing it open just as Marcus spoke to her in

this. Not in prison, not after the loss she had endured, not even after they had taken something so precious from her. This, this was different. This was beyond anything I had ever seen,

The

always been so strong, so resilient, so full of life and fight, was now a shell of herself. There was nothing but pure horror in her eyes, a look I had never thought I would see. It was like a part of her soul had been ripped away, and whatever was left was too fragile, too broken to ever heal

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