Chapter six

~Olivia~

“What the hell did I just do? I didn’t just sign those papers, did I?” I could feel my palms sweating, my stomach churning and my heart hurting as I wanted to pretend I wasn’t just slapped in the face.

I didn’t spare his secretary any glance and walked back to my cubicle like I wasn’t in pieces already.

My hands shook. I couldn’t concentrate. Everything in me was crying except my eyes.

Ryan sold me to his friend for money? It was still very unbelievable and the fact that I wasn’t crying yet was killing me so bad.

I didn’t know how to react, couldn’t go to Emily’s office right now because the pain would double as she warned me multiple times.

My hands shook as I couldn’t hold anything or even type, I beat my chest as it felt tight and painful.

I just couldn’t hold back anymore and walked all the way to her office.

One step in and the tears flowed freely, as if to protest that I had been holding them back for too long.

I let out a whimper as it hurt real bad. This was beyond heartbreak, it was brutal betrayal while I still lost everything.

She stood immediately and watched me crawl to sit in her corner, my hands still clutching to my chest as I couldn’t explain how this felt.

Her eyes held pity in them but it disappeared almost immediately. “I’m still not changing my mind Olive, don’t put on this act for him.” She looked away, thinking I was putting on a freaking act for Ryan.

Her words broke me even more.

So I was this pathetic for him? She actually believed I would do this for him, go through all lengths to give him what was mine.

I was definitely stupid.

“I was stupid, I’m sorry.” I managed to let out amidst everything that was going on in my head.

My voice was a silent cry for help as I was drowning in pain.

That made her move and I watched her come close, my chest heaving heavily as I wished I listened to her when she warned I kept something for myself or even when she pleaded that I left the relationship.

“What happened olive?” Her eyes settled on me.

“You’re not here to plead for him.” She said it like she just read that up from my crying face.

I nod slowly.

“You didn’t get into trouble with the boss?” She asked again, her eyes twitching like she was scared if that would be a yes.

How do I tell her I didn’t get into trouble but actually got married to him. “No” I mouthed this time around, trying to stop myself from crying, it won’t change anything right now even though it hurts real bad.

She clears her throat, takes a seat beside me with her hands on my back. “So what happened?” Her voice was calm as she was definitely happy I didn't lose my job.

I couldn’t blame her, she was a true friend as she knew the last thing I wanted to happen to me was losing my job and she didn’t want that for me.

“Ryan.” I mentioned slowly, as his voice and all he said to Nathan came up again in my memory.

She rolled her eyes in disgust like nothing good could ever come out of that.. and for once i was agreeing with her but it cost me everything already.

My trust, my money, my time, my money…

Her voice suddenly had a sharp edge but she didn’t make it too obvious. “What about him?”

I sat still, wiping tears away from her eyes as I told myself that he wasn’t worth it.

I cleared my throat, trying my very best to maintain a calm demeanor as people passed by her office.

Her eyes glued to me as she waited for an explanation of what was going on.

“Ryan sold me to his friend.” I broke out.

“For money” I added and I didn’t miss the way her face almost lit up with an ‘I told you so’.

But she was my friend so she held that in.

“So he broke up with you?” She asked as if she was double confirming, failing to hide the happiness in her voice.

He chose the darndest way to do it and didn’t say it straight to my face but “yes he did.”

He humiliated me and limited me to something he could sell, calling me naive all because I chose to support a dream I couldn’t see happening for him.

That’s it Olivia, it’s not the end of the world, it’s only the beginning and no one is walking over us ever again.

“Wait.. did you say he sold you? Like he gave you to someone else and how are you getting all this information after coming back from the boss office?” She asked, her gaze overly serious right now as the real scare was about to happen.

I returned the look she gave me not knowing where I was going to start from too.

“He didn’t involve you into mafia shit, did he?” She asked pretty scared.

I nodded her a no, watching her sigh, relieved that this wasn’t the case.

Only it was way worse as I was fucking married.

“Explain faster olive, you know I have little patience for these kind of things.”

“He sold me to Nathan.”

It takes her a lot of time to realize who Nathan was as she was fond of calling him boss.

I didn’t break it to her yet that I actually did sign marriage papers.

Her shocked expression sits wildly on her face as she mouths no way.

A message from an unknown number comes at the same time she says something.

“So you have to like pay back what Ryan took or what’s the deal?” She’s pissed but doesn’t say a thing.

I read the message calmly, praying secretly that this would all be a dream and time could go back and I wouldn’t have signed papers without thinking.

I could have stayed with Emily, you know. Quick thinking Olivia.

“I signed marriage papers, Emily.” I broke it out to her as I stood up.

Her face in disbelief and in utter shock.

She was dumbfounded and couldn’t say a word and I walked out quietly as Nathan somehow already got my number and messaged that I could get off early alongside a note of his house address.