Chapter 29

Tears streamed down Olivia’s cheeks.

She knew that she and Ethan could never go back to how things were before. He had betrayed her and destroyed the Fordhamns, and the Fordhams owed him his sister’s life.

Those debts could never be settled. Trying to resolve them would only serve to tighten the knots of their relationship, suffocating them and leading to an inevitable end.

Ethan held her face in his hands, wiping away her tears with his cheeks. “Liv, don’t love me. Hate me instead. t betrayed you, I killed our child, and I can never turn back.”

She sensed his inner turmoil, but amidst that, she could feel the tenderness he still had for her like a calm oasis in a turbulent desert sandstorm. However, she knew that the oasis would soon be destroyed by the raging winds.

Ethan left the room, leaving Olivia behind. Olivia knew that this was their final farewell.

seen. The kind–hearted Madam Burgess had

the singular and rightful Mrs. Miller, hence she was

in the spacious mansion. It wasn’t until Madam Burgess

of chowder Madam Burgess had made waiting in the kitchen. Olivia poured herself

eating, Olivia’s expression was calm. She had found a solution to the exhausting

my father owes you,” she

she decided to enjoy the remaining days of her

and turmoil, she was certain that he would no longer be burdened by hatred and his conflicted.

life, she would just have to give up her own. He would

be fine, and that would be wonderful. Olivia suddenly felt the chains

from her own constraints.

return, and the Miller residence was as silent as

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