Olivia's POV When I told Damien that I would be visiting my mother after work, he looked pleasantly surprised.“I will not be staying at the palace,” I told him sternly so that he would not get his hopes up. “I… I understand but you should know that so many things have changed since you've left and I can always order…” “I will not be going to your palace, Damien.” “Why? Because of Brielle? I will have you know that she left my palace last night with her lover, Alpha Axel,” he told me in a tone that was meant to make me change my mind. “What's that supposed to mean to me? What? Do you expect that I'll move in with you and we would live happily ever after?” I demanded in a sarcastic tone as I straightened my dress, prepared to leave the carriage that had become our rendezvous spot. “Liv, I was only trying to…” “I'm going to the Black Thorne to see my sick mother, nothing more,” I said and reached out for the door of the carriage. He held me back with his hand. “So, there'll be n
Olivia's POV “So you're not going to say anything to me, still?” Simeon quipped. It has been five days since I had cheated on Simeon. That was wrong—since I had begun to have an affair with Damien because it had not stopped at day one.“Do you remember when Damien kidnapped me and I was holed up in his palace for a few days?” I asked him. He looked a bit surprised to hear my voice but I wanted to make a point.“Olivia, I…”“You gave me the silent treatment for years and when you spoke to me at all, you ensured that our conversations were brief. Simeon, I do not owe you an explanation for my silence. I just want you to leave me alone, okay?” I told him before walking past him.I had barely taken five steps when I heard his voice again. “Did you ever love me?”The question froze me mid-step.I turned my head slightly. “Maybe I did. But I stopped loving the man you became.”That shut him up for good. I could feel the finality of my words settling down between us. But Simeon was desperat
Olivia's POV I pulled the hem of my dress down and smoothed it over my thighs. The fabric clung to my skin as though trying to prove a point that I could not hide what I had just done, that I had started something that I could not end, that I was treading a dangerous path. My legs trembled a little from the action. It had been five years after all and honestly Damien had made my legs weak literally. However, I refused to let it show — I was not going to give Damien that pleasure. Damien was watching me, but I refused to meet his eyes. Instead I turned my attention to my hair, trying to get it to its former state before our rendezvous. That done, I adjusted the strap on my shoulder, not because it needed fixing, but because I needed something to do with my hands. He only watched me quietly as I fumbled with my clothes trying desperately to get rid of any indication of what had happened just now. “What does this make us?” he asked me in a voice that told me he was scared to even ask
Simeon's POVMy heart had to be on a marathon as it raced through the entire day. I could not focus at the Council meeting, my Beta was not with me, my Luna had gone off to a work that I was not sure she would return, everything was falling apart. I felt like I had pushed myself to the edge of a precipice and there was no one there to save me from falling.“The matter on ground is about your heir. What do you intend to do about your heir?” asked one of the councilmen, prompting me to come out of my reverie.“I have a son, his name is Jeremy,” I said, my voice reverberating round the room. I had had this conversation with my council several times and they were still adamant at the issue of my heir. I had told them time without number that I was not going to budge on this matter and that was not going to happen this time.I saw them look among themselves awkwardly.“In terms of biology, Jeremy…”“A lot of monarchs adopt children and it has never been a problem. Jeremy was not just adopt
Olivia’s POVI was going to repay Simeon in his own coin by sleeping with his worst adversary. He had done it to me and so I saw no reason why I should not pursue revenge this way. Besides, it would be like killing two birds with one stone. I had never gotten revenge on Brielle for taking Damien away from me and since the two were still together (as far as I knew), it was the perfect opportunity to get back at her for what she had done. I was going to sleep with Simeon and thus cheat on my husband and with that determination, I stepped out of the carriage. I saw Damien standing outside the carriage, he looked like he had been waiting for me. I flashed him a warm smile which I knew he found unusual by the expression on his face. “Damien, you look quite handsome this morning,” I said to him. When we had parted ways, I had not been speaking to him and here I was hoping to charm him with my smile. I understood how that could be confusing for him. “Uhm… I don't understand,” he said, h
Olivia's POV The ride to the war college was a quiet one. I saw the many questions written expressly on my son's face but he asked nothing, he knew the answers already and I knew that he feared that if I said them out loud it would make it all real. There was one thing however that I wanted to clarify, one thing that I needed to know. And that was if Jeremy had heard the part about his biological father. But I could not ask him directly, I had to find a way around it. “You keep looking at my wrist,” I said, I had been watching him throughout the ride so far and he had not taken his eyes off my wrist. I knew the question on his mind was if Simeon had really hurt me or if Simeon had been right and it had just been a mistake. “Are you in a lot of pain, mum?” he asked me, my heart broke at the pity he felt for me in his voice. “No, sweetheart, not at all,” I said with a smile that I hoped reached my eyes. “Did dad do it?” he asked quietly. I was at a crossroads. I could tell him th