Chapter 346

Olivia Fletcher was practically choking on her sobs as she spilled the long-buried story to Calliope Godfrey. Conrad Hilliard had turned down the volume on the cartoon without anyone noticing. He held Leo in his arms, and the little guy blinked his big eyes, full of worry, at Calliope. Calliope just sat there, silent, her eyes already brimming with tears that blurred everything in front of her. So it turned out, before her mother ever met Jonathan Godfrey, she had known Damon Stratton. They first ran into each other during college registration. In the crowd, two young people chasing the same dream of technology caught each other’s eyes right away—they just clicked. They even joined the same campus club. When her mom fainted from heatstroke during military training under the scorching sun, it was Damon who scooped her up without a second thought and sprinted all the way to the infirmary. For the next two years, they were basically inseparable. They studied together in the library, did l