Chapter 282

Nick

“Nick, calm down. There was nothing you were going to do anymore. She left with her husband and kids to fix herself,

here. You promised not to interfere with her fix her marriage. You don’t belong there.”

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I stopped, the words hitting me like a slap. I turned to glare at him, fury bubbling in my chest. How dare he say that to me? How could anyone expect me to just stand by and let this happen? Why should I be lying here in a hospital bed and accept being told she was gone, as if that was some kind of solution?

“You forget, one of the kids you are talking about is mine! should have been with them. You should have put me on the damn jet with them!” My voice cracked with emotion Anger, confusion, fear, all of it was crowding my chest. How was Olivia going to take care of the kids in the state I saw her in? Sure, Marcus could handle them, but who was going to take care of her? She was the one who needled the most help.

Lupita and her grandmother were still in deep slumber, knocked out by some medication or whatever Xander gave them. Who knew when they would wake up? And we all knew how things went when we trusted strangers. We had been burned before. No way in hell I was going to sit idly by and let them handle it.

“I know that, Nick. But you need to give them time to sort things out. You need time away from Olivia. Being around her is not good for your health. Your heart is deteriorating.”

be expected to be okay when she wasn’t? Did they think I was being overly dramatic when I said she was the center

help them, then?” I asked, the words dripping with frustration and desperation. Luke turned his back on me without answering, and that was when I lost it. The bed, my hospital bed, was no match for my fury. I

Why would you do that?!” I didn’t even care that I was shouting or how irrational I sounded. My breath came in short, ragged gasps, and my chest tightened with the weight of my anger

me. I could endure anything including her being with Marcus, as long as I could see her, see that she was alright. But now, now she

flinch at my outburst. Instead, his face twisted

this nonsense!” His voice was loud, almost as if he were trying to force sense into me. But nothing could penetrate

the fury began to dissipate, leaving a dull ache in its place. Then I spoke,

important that she gets all the care she needs, without having to worry about the kids as well. You saw her at the hospital, Luke. You saw what state she is in. She is not alright. She is not

breath, calming myself for a moment. But inside, I was still seething, still unable to shake the fr

chair next to the bed, the familiar fabric feeling cold

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been discharged yet!” Luke snapped, the irritation in his tone unmistakable. But I didn’t

My words were sharp, cutting through the tension in the room like a blade didn’t care about his irritation. What mattered to me was Olivia. And she wasn’t here. She was there, on the other side of

I grabbed my bag. “I will be damned if I stay here

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