The Beginning Of All Sins

Chapter 5

Blushing, Olivia backed away from Tyler’s embrace and lowered her head to see the mess on the floor. She bent down to pick up the grapes. At the same moment, he also bent down.

They both reached for the same grape simultaneously, their hands touching. His hand was wet and

warm.

Olivia looked down and instinctively withdrew her hand. As for Tyler, he naturally noticed her reaction and also pulled his hand back.

People outside heard the commotion, and Naomi quickly asked, “What’s wrong, Olivia?”

Tyler calmly replied when he heard Naomi’s voice, “Nothing.”

Olivia remained silent and unmoving. She allowed him to pick up the grapes from the floor and wash them again.

“You clean yourself. I’ll leave first,” he said as he headed back to the ward, rolling down his sleeves.

Olivia stood there with her heart still racing, gripping the corner of the basin instinctively.

While she

spent some time cleaning the milk stain off herself, the sound of running water drowned out the conversation between Tyler and Naomi in the ward.

she finished cleaning and returned to the room, she saw Tyler picking up his jacket. “I need to go. I can’t take Olivia home, but

probably would like to avoid spending time alone with her.

Can you take her with you?”

while she happened to look up. As

understood what they saw in

when the janitor had finished cleaning the pantry. “Okay.”

hand from his arm after

play. She saw one person pushing her

she in

had been standing there, turned around and said to Olivia, who had been

opened her mouth, but she swallowed her words when she saw

sensed

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was subtle.

residence in silence. Tyler

conveyed a sense of avoidance and distance, which Olivia acknowledged with a simple, ” Thank you, Tyler.

conversation. All she wanted was to

out of the car,

the process of opening the car door, froze as

has nothing to do with you,” he calmly explained. He was referring to the push–and–pull situation at