#Chapter 134: The Vial

Agnes Once Olivia was gone, I hesitated uncertainly in the doorway. My heart was hammering in my chest, and I wasn’t sure what to say. What did you say to a man you’d just caught in a compromising position with his ex-wife? Of course, this was a situation I had come to know all too well. I’d seen Olivia take advantage of Elijah multiple times, and knew exactly what had happened. But that didn’t make it any easier. If anything, it just made it all the more difficult—knowing that neither Elijah nor I wanted this, and yet for now, at least until we found a solution, Olivia had that hold on him. And that was assuming there even was a solution. For all we knew, maybe there was no way to unmark Olivia without killing her and Elijah would just have to accept his fate, remaining emotionally shackled to her forever. Furthermore, perhaps we were completely wrong about her faking a mate bond. Perhaps this was just the way it was—Elijah was never meant to be my mate,