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37: The worst thing that ever happened to me.
The doctor was right, the bruise on my forehead goes away in just a few days. It’s been a week since the accident and I feel good as new. Now that I’m healed, I’m finally ready to stop being this sad defeated woman and the first step to do so is to take better care of myself. I’ve been eating much better this past week, but I also need to exercise and get out of the apartment once in a while. The self-imposed confinement is clearly not good for my mental and physical health. I find online a prenatal yoga class I want to check out, working out and seeing new faces is just what I need. I ask Ivan to take me to the class, he looks relieved to finally be able to get out of the apartment, watching over me must be really boring since I do nothing all day.
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Flowers for Olivia 38: The Crossroads.
I wake up and I find that all of my purchases from yesterday are already in the bedroom. I didn’t hear a sound, but given that they are neatly arranged by size it’s easy to guess it was Stefan who did this.I hear a sound coming from the dressing room, I go check and I’m surprised to find Stefan getting dressed. He usually leaves pretty early every morning for the gym, showers there, and then goes straight to work; I normally only see him in the evenings.
Flowers for Olivia 39: One pill a day
A bathing suit is not the only thing I have to buy for our trip, I’m also going to need a dress to wear for Christmas and another one for New Year’s Eve. I definitely didn’t expect my first Holidays with Stefan to be like this, pregnant and practically traveling as a hostage; but to be honest, my marriage with Stefan is nothing like I imagined.The task of finding two cute dresses that make me feel beautiful and confident with my new baby bump turns out to be rather difficult. I’m nervous enough to meet the Corvino clan as it is, so I want to feel good about myself and wha
Flowers for Olivia 40: I’m just pretending
Back at the apartment, I feel restless, I walk from the living room to the dining room and back, over and over again. I’m biting my nails, I can’t help it. I hid the bottle of pills inside my makeup bag, I’m still not sure what I want to do with it. That’s the reason I feel so nervous, the presence of the bottle in the apartment has me on the edge. I was going to toss the pills down the toilet, but my mom’s words kept ringing in my mind, ‘do it for your brother’, she really hit a tender spot with that sentence and now I feel torn apart, unsure of what to do. I don’t want to become a criminal just like the rest of them, but I a
Flowers for Olivia 41: The Airport
Our flight to Rio de Janeiro leaves in an hour. Since we are taking a private jet, I was foolish enough to think we wouldn’t go through airport security, but, apparently, there was an incident last week in one of the private flights and they now are scanning everyone’s belongings so, here we are waiting in line to have our luggage checked. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to control myself, my palms are so sweaty my handbag keeps slipping from my hands. I put the pills inside an empty Ibuprofen bottle and the idea of getting caught makes me sick to my stomach. I’m so frightened I’m almost shakin
Flowers for Olivia 42 Aunt Agatha
Stefan keeps on driving until we leave Rio de Janeiro behind us, the sun is setting as we exit, the night falls while we drive through a two-way road surrounded by what appears to be the rainforest. The trees on the side of the road are the tallest I’ve ever seen and the vegetation is so thick it’s hard to see inside the rainforest, even with the streetlights. There are few cars circulating on this road and they become fewer as we drive further. At one point, we exit the paved road and enter an almost hidden dirt track. The jeep jumps up and down due to the numerous potholes along the way, there’s no street lighting here, only more and more trees and plants.
Flowers for Olivia 43 A heartless man
Our bags are already in our room at the foot of the king-size bed.“I’m jumping in the shower; do you want to join me?” Stefan asks as he takes off his shirt.“No, thanks,” I reply as I take off my shoes.
Flowers for Olivia 44: The good girl is gone
“Doll, I’m so sorry about that,” Stefan exclaims the minute we reach our bedroom. “Don’t mind him, my father was way out of line.”“Whatever... don’t worry, you put up with a lot of crap from my mom, I guess it’s my turn to deal with your hostile parent,” I reply feeling dispirited.“Oh, no, doll. You don’t have to put up with anything, I’ll talk to him, don’t worry, I won’t allow this to happen again,”
Flowers for Olivia 45: Not as bad as thought
I barely contain a scream when someone pulls me by the arm back to the dining room. It’s Agatha who is pulling me as hard as she can with an unfriendly expression on her face, then she gestures me to keep quiet. I feel a chill in my body. She just saw me spying on his brother and nephew. Is she going to rat me out? I’m supposed to be pretending to be innocent and naive, if they realize I’m spying on them I won’t seem so innocent. I may have put the whole plan in danger.“You know how much trouble you can get into for doing that? If Romano realizes you are eavesdropping he is going to lose it! My brother is an angry man with very little patience and he already has a poor
Pinakabagong kabanata
- Flowers for Olivia Epilogue
- Flowers for Olivia 54 The kidnap
- Flowers for Olivia 53 No limits
- Flowers for Olivia 52 The Escape
- Flowers for Olivia 51 Whose side are you on?
- Flowers for Olivia 50 The Proposal
- Flowers for Olivia 49 The Main Suspect
- Flowers for Olivia 48 The Attack
- Flowers for Olivia 47 A brother just like mine
