CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

OLIVIA

Of course I had to work for sweet old Rachel. I can only call her that in my head because she looks like she’ll really bite my head off if I so much as suggest her growing age.

It’s obvious she takes a great care of herself from how she still looks younger than the age I estimated for her in my head.

Happiness can do that you, I muse. It had this way of brightening up your day and everything that is around you. It made your heart lighter and less full with worries.

Watching Mac and his family together made me appreciate the love hey so obviously shared between themselves. But it also made me wonder if my family could have been like this if we ended up together.

Or would we have been one of those viscous ones that looked for how to bring each other down at any slightest turn.

My bet was on the latter. A couple filled with love like Rachel and Peter would never abandon their child, ever, no matter the circumstances.

I must have been something vile when they had given birth