#Chapter 33: Strawberry Sweetness

Ollie’s POV “Sit, Ollie. I won’t repeat myself.” I don’t know what he has in mind but he seems mad enough to try to punish any disobedience. For my own sanity and for my stomach’s sake, I move toward him and then sit on the stool beside his where he’s gesturing. As soon as I sit, he grabs the base of my seat and turns it toward him so that I am facing him. The movements are all aggressive, showing his anger, though he hasn’t physically hurt me. Even angry, I’m not sure he will. The brothers have never struck me in the past. They didn’t seem the kind of men to hit a woman under any circumstance. But Conrad still seems angry, and that anger seems pent up, like he’s not sure what to do with it. I have no idea what I did to earn this kind of ire from him. All I did was skip dinner, something that he’s never really cared about since Sylvia came along. I could only hope this isn’t something like what Wes was saying, where the brothers can’t even trust me to feed myself now. Conra