Chapter 75

I didn’t tell anyone where I was going. Not even Ava. I just

wanted solitude. No familiar faces. No expectations. No

whispers behind my back.

I merged onto the freeway, my playlist low in the background.

For the first time in weeks, the silence felt like mine.

Little did I know, I had left New York unaware that two cars

were following me.

Olivia’s POV

The sun in Jersey wasn’t as harsh as in New York. Or maybe I

just liked it better here. The wind carried the scent of tomatoes

and old soil, and the rocking chair on my grandmother’s porch

creaked like it belonged to a gentler time.

But my phone was a portal to hell.


I stared at it as the screen refreshed–another thread, another

video, another faceless stranger dissecting my life.

@citylegalbuzz: “Olivia Whitmore’s rebuttal seems rehearsed.

Who even talks like that unless they’re hiding something?”

@sweetvengeance22: “Not defending Chole but… if Olivia was so

innocent, why does she have hotel surveillance to clear her name? Sounds prepared ”

@truthhuntNY: “Still remember how Ethan broke down

captured on a video saying he loved his wife. Now it’s all scandal and smoke. Who’s lying?”

@jadebylaw: “As a lawyer, this is textbook gaslighting. Olivia’s video held back way too much. She knows more than she’s

saying. Why?”

not forget she slapped a woman to unconsciousness at an airport. That’s not the behavior

victim.”

turned the screen


it

were people who remembered the charity gala. People who remembered

others… others were far more

tossed the phone onto the small metal table beside me. It clattered too loud for the soft

filled the silence.

the back of my wrist.

inside. Not yet. I didn’t want to

heard

The windows were open

carried their words

talked about this,”

the Caters into

taut. “She’s not


barely sleeping. That girl’s husband tried to

like a goddamn prisoner, and the press?

ripping her

to drag in

being hunted,” Mom snapped. “If not by

by headlines. And this could get a lot

think?”

beat of silence. The creak of

her no matter

“And you know

that’s why I’m saying she needs the Cater name

than ever.”

in


Cater?

want her to go back

Just let

if the Windsors

start a

“Exactly.”

now, but I

my daughter, Ma. You raised

was born with

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