Chapter 243: Olive's POVA familiar voice. Calm and steady, the way it had been for as long as I'd known him. The way it had been the night he'd called me and told me to come stop Zane before he did something he couldn't take back."Hello, Olive."Nikolai.I closed my eyes for a second. I had been hoping for Zane, and instead I had gotten his father, and somehow that felt like a kind of consolation prize that I shouldn't have been grateful for but absolutely was.Because Nikolai was the closest thing I had to a connection to Zane right now.And right now, I would take whatever connection I could get."Hi," I said quietly. "It's good to hear from you.""I imagine you've been worried.""I have.""I figured."He let the silence stretch for a moment."How are you holding up?" he asked."I'm fine," I lied. "Honestly. I'm fine. Just trying to settle back into normal life. My mother is out of the hospital. She's doing better. Brenda is staying close to her. We're all just—we're all just tryi
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