Chapter 74 - This Fallout

OLIVIA'S POV My heart raced as I tried to digest the fact that that man almost hurt me. I wondered what would have happened if the officers weren't there to stop him just in time. He was never beating the psychopath allegations. Dave had never been there for me as a child, not even the slightest. The earliest memory I have of a father figure is my grandfather helping to care for me whenever my mother was busy. And that was how we grew on each other. He was basically the only man in my life who didn't leave me and that made me really grateful. Sometimes, I wondered what my life would be like without him and it just seemed impossible to imagine. But here was Dave. I never knew any other father of mine existed until two years ago when he first showed his pathetic face to my grandfather and I Wasn't that a selfish thing to do? Never reaching out to your child until she was in her twenties. And not even to bond with her, but to ask for a huge amount of mone