#Chapter 154: Brief Encounters

Olivia The door closed behind me, sealing my fate and finalizing the goodbye. With my head hung low, I walked down the steps to the sidewalk and began my walk of shame back to the villa. The setting sun cast everything in a warm orange glow, but my insides felt cold and blue like the deepest waters of the raging ocean. Why wouldn’t Nathan understand that I wanted him close to me? Why did he have to push me away like this? Angela had said that Nathan and I were like two peas in a pod, completely inseparable. But we had been separated for ten years, and now we were separated once more. Something in me told me that we wouldn’t find our way back to each other again, not with our lives moving in opposite directions. “Angela won’t be so sure about Nathan and me now,” I muttered to myself, shoving my hands into my pockets as I walked. A stone laid in my path, and with a grimace I gave it a solid kick, watching with angry satisfaction as it skittered across the pavement an