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
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