sign. For five years, I' d been a ghost in my ow
ed in, saw me, and murmured a n
ivia." His brief warmth vanished, replaced by chilling disgust. "Ava," he spat, "It's always you." He shoved me
ge. "You want to torment me? Then do it. Fulfill your promise." An hour l
a deal: I'd find Olivia, and he'd gr
ill obsessed, Mom. He's been looking for me for five years." Olivia, who had supposedly been mute since childhood, was
locked up. I'm scared." He believed her. He dragged me to the bar, where Olivia, now feigning a wheelch
up a steel pipe. He broke my legs, then tossed the pipe aside, saying, "Crawl back to the
nt. With his child. The irony shattered me. I wanted an abortion, but my injur