OLIVIAI hoped Nick would come home early today. He hadn’t been around much since he started working with my best friend, Sandra. Things had been hectic at the office, but I still hoped today would be different, seeing how it was our fourth-year anniversary. I also had big news; I was finally pregna
OLIVIATwo Days Later“Lock her up, and don’t let her see the sun ever again. She doesn’t deserve it!” Nick barked at the New Village Town police. His eyes were cold as ice, filled with hatred. The officer roughly shoved me into the filthy, smelly cell before slamming the bars shut. I turned to loo
OLIVIAAs I stood in the cell, my thoughts went to my grandma. What would happen to her now that I was locked up? My chest tightened as I thought of her and her fragile health. Hearing about my arrest might kill her.Nick turned to the officer. “She’s to have no visitors and isn’t allowed outside. L
OLIVIAI sat in the dark jail cell, thinking about my baby and how he was going to survive in a place like this. I didn’t care about myself—they could keep me there for as long as they wanted—but my baby didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve to be born in a jail or suffer for my sins.It was only t
OLIVIANINE MONTHS LATERPrison had been hard, not just because I was pregnant but because of how I was treated. But I was grateful for one thing—Ethan kept his word. The guard he’d bribed continued to bring me vitamins and took care of me as promised.But when he wasn’t around, the others would con
NICKTwo years have passed since that woman humiliated me, since I found out she stole millions from me. How could I have been so stupid and blind? When Sandra told me that Olivia had a hand in what happened to my mother all those years ago—how they met, how Olivia “just happened” to save her from
NICKMy parents left and Sandra came out from the kitchen. She was crying and I didn’t like it. I didn’t know why my parents would be so cruel to her, she was not the one who did all those things to me. she was the one who saved me from a bad situation and showed me the kind of wife I had.I didn’t
OLIVIAPrison became hell for me after I gave birth. The policeman who helped me before, transferred two days later. I think he was so traumatized by what he saw that he didn’t want to be anywhere near me after. I had an infection after giving birth, but I didn’t know that it was an infection. I tho
OLIVIAThe next day, I called Ethan to come over to my house, but he refused. He said if I wanted to meet with him then I would go to his house. Which I found fair. I told Marcus and he wanted to go with me. He and I were the reason Ethan was acting that way and going to meet with him together and a
OLIVIADay six and still no call from Ethan. I thought they would have been back by now, but they were not. I missed my son much that I hear his voice sometimes and I would smile and look only find nothing. I went to his room every morning, but his scent was starting to fade.I wanted to call so man
MARCUSEverything had become such a huge mess, never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that Ethan would ever do something like that. the man was not capable of hurting my wife. Nick could do it and everyone else, me included but not Ethan.That man cared deeply for Olivia, and it wasn’t some
OLIVIAAfter Ethan cut the call, silence remained in the room with only my sniffing could be heard. To say I was hurt would have been an understatement. He was right, we always overlooked him, maybe it was because he never caused trouble or maybe it was because he was the level-headed one.I didn’t
OLIVIA“What happened, somebody tell me what the fuck just happened?” I was going crazy, what was happening, what the hell did Ethan just say and why was he saying it? what the fuck did we do to deserve what he did?“I think Ethan just stook a stand.” My dad said looking awfully calm for my liking,
I didn’t even want to think about where they could be. “Let’s start looking. Luke, you take the morgues.” I cringed when Elodie mentioned the morgue, what the hell was the woman thinking? “I know this may sound like I think they are dead, but we have to cover our bases.”I said nothing but I was fum
OLIVIAI was anxious, very anxious but trying to keep it together. Two days had passed and there was no sign of Ethan with my son. It was the weekend of the camping trip, but Ethan was a no show, and his phone has not been going through.We had been trying to get in contact with him to no avail. Nic
ETHANOlivia opened the door when I got to her house, it was early morning, and I was sure they were not expecting me after cutting the call like that. “Good morning, I wasn’t expecting you so early, in fact, I wasn’t expecting you at all.”She was smiling, that beautiful smile of hers that used to
OLIVIA“When will you stop controlling people? These are not your employees Marcus; they are our friends. what you said to her was wrong, I too was not going to let her be with the kids, you didn’t have to treat her like a criminal when she has done nothing.”I sighed putting my phone aside after Et