#Chapter 62: What Us?

Julian’s POV “Us? What us?” I demanded. At first, I had felt some guilt for not telling Olivia the truth of where I was, or where I’d been, but this was the exact scenario I had been hoping to avoid with my secrecy. Olivia felt that she owed a piece of me. In a way, maybe she did. She had once been pregnant with my child and then lost them when I hadn’t come home. I couldn’t and wouldn’t forget that. Yet ever since then, she had been lording that tragedy over my head as if she was trying to keep me on a leash. Whenever I stepped too far from what she wanted, she would remind me of this, of our lost child, of my shame in being unable to protect my unborn child. It was those feelings that culled me once again, keeping me still when I wanted nothing more than to bolt past her and find Amber. If I could only explain… But where would I even begin? Olivia had always been a point of contention between Amber and me. And why wouldn’t she? I had cheated on Amber, drunkenly sleepi