Emmett: Yeah no worries. Everything okay?
Miles: No, but it will be.
With that settled, Miles grabbed his keys and headed out of the office.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
OLIVIA
Her heart felt like it was breaking in two. Nothing could have prepared her for the look of despair that crossed Miles’ face at her words.
She kept chanting to herself that everything was for a reason. It was for the best, now he can’t get hurt.
Olivia glanced down at the text that crossed her phone moments before she ripped Miles’ heart out and stomped it into the ground.
Unknown: Twinkle twinkle little whore. Come and open up your door.
He was here. She knew it deep in her heart that he had found her. Olivia knew better than to think that he was ever going to let her go.
It was time for her to run, but she had to take care of things first. She couldn’t just leave things the way that they were.
She only hoped that she had time to do it all before David finally showed up for her.
Right now though, the only thing that Olivia could do iscrawl into the hole in her bed and pretend like this day never happened. That was the only thing she had the mental capacity for.
Tomorrow would bethe first time she would see Raelyn since she broke up with Miles and Olivia wasn’t looking forward to it. She had been dodging all of her text messages all week, but there was no ignoring her at work.
She was going to want answers and Olivia didn’t have any to give her. The past few days have been spent trying to think of reasons why she did what she did to Miles in between crying her heart out.
Olivia didn’t think the pain of this would ever go away. She wasn’t sleeping and wasn’t eating. She really had become a shell of the person she was.
It was clear that she wasn’t taking care of herself and Olivia knew that if Daddy knew about it, her bottom would pay. Only after he nursed her back to health of course.
Dragging her butt out of the bed, she crawled across the floor to her bathroom. Walking took energy that Olivia didn’t have, but she was starting to smell and there was no way that she could go to work like that.
This whole week would go down in history as the worst one yet. This was harder than all the times that David had put her into the hospital. All she wanted to do was numb the pain.
Sitting on the floor of her shower, Olivia cried and cried about all the dreams she had, but would never get to do. She wasn’t free and she never would be.
Long after the water had turned cold, she finally turned offthe shower and forced herself to get out. Pulling on the counter, Olivia stood and looked at herself in the mirror.
Her hip bones were more defined than they were before, the dark circles had come back with vengeance, and the weight of the world that was on her shoulders could be seen in the ghostly look on her face.
Making her way back into bed, she crawled in and was almost asleep when the buzzing of her phone caught her attention.
Miles: I’m not giving up on us. You are my world and I’m not going to let you go without a fight.
A fresh wave of tears poured down her face. Daddy had been texting her a few times over the past few days. All words of strength and love even though she didn’t deserve it.
Olivia knew that she loved him, but she would never get the chance to tell him that.
Turning her phone back over, she ignored the buzzing again and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning came way too fast as Olivia silenced the alarm coming from her phone. Groaning, she laid there until she had no option but to get up or she would be late for work.
Not that she really cared about it anymore, but Olivia still had her pride and she didn’t want to forever be known as the worker who didn’t care and left them in a lurch.
Kissing Nibbles on the nose, she headed out the door for what she knew would be a hard shift.
