Hundred and Fifty-One

Rumours were rife throughout the house that Titan and Miriel were both talking privately in his home office. The omega maid he'd directed to go and fetch her had told all the others in the kitchen, and when Asher had gone to help himself to some snacks, he heard them talking about it with so much excitement that he had to inform Maya. Maya had suggested they keep it away from Olivia, but Olivia had found out anyway.

She had retreated to the orchard, where there was a swing meant for kids, but she sat down on it, thinking of Miriel and Titan all alone in the office.

Logically she knew they had to talk and iron out the intricate issues of the past. Emotionally, this logic was hard to swallow. Like the brain explaining endlessly to the heart.

"There you are," Asher said out of the blue.

She looked up. "I was hoping not to be found,"

"It's a big ginormous house but there is only a number of places you can hide,"

"So what are you hiding from?" she asked.

"Me? Nothing, you?"

"I'm not hidi