Chapter 86

Ethan took a furtive glance around the apartment. It wasn’t big, but he could feel Olivia’s presence in every corner.

When he noticed the baby crib in her room, he remembered that it was the only thing she’d taken with her when she’d left him. As the realization washed over him, his heart turned into a jumbled mess.

After seeing her jump off the building that day, he’d come to realize one thing.

He’d followed after her without hesitation, which made him understand that he couldn’t stop loving her no matter how much he hated her.

His love and hate were intertwined. They fused into a prickly bramble full of thors, coiling tightly around the two of them. It was as though the more he pushed her off into the dark, the closer he got to the edge of a cliff himself.

Ethan picked up a soft toy on the bed. Olivia had always hugged it to make herself sleep for countless nights in the past two

years.

and a good father to their

himself leave

some time. She slowly pushed

given that he was someone who valued time. Yet when she raised her head to look around the

held it between two fingers.

was astonished that he was still here. Was he waiting to pick up where they’d

thought, and she went to get herself a glass of water

feet on the floor as she approached him. “Should we do it here or on the bed?” she asked in a cool

exhaled slowly, forming a white puff of smoke in the air. Do I seem like

told him blankly. She secretly thanked her lucky stars that she’d been able to escape

she wanted was to have a good rest. She went into

to make the ashes fall as he watched her disappear behind the door. This was

he’d wanted.

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