Trapped in Love

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.

room, leaving Olivia behind. Olivia knew that this was their

seen. The kind–hearted Madam Burgess had always believed their conflicts to

her eyes, Olivia was the singular and rightful Mrs.

felt lonely in the spacious mansion. It wasn’t until Madam

of chowder Madam Burgess had made waiting in the kitchen. Olivia poured herself some into a bowl. The steam from the pot veiled

was calm. She had found a solution to the exhausting

the debt my father owes you,”

to enjoy the

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

a better life, she would just have to give up her own. He would have the beloved wife

she would be gone, everything would be fine, and that would be wonderful. Olivia suddenly felt the chains binding her loosen, and she realized

from her own constraints.