Olivia Extends a Lifeline

Sera

Three days passed, and if Killian slipping out of my room after taking my virginity hadn’t been enough, he’d kept me locked in here since that night. Three days with no word from anyone about what was going on in the outside world. Three days of sitting on my hands wondering if I’d done something wrong. After he’d claimed me, he’d looked at me like he hated me. No.

Like he hated himself.

Then he’d left me here to lose my mind.

Asshole.

Olivia had been my only source of human contact since then, and her chipper demeanor did nothing to improve my mood. If anything, it made it worse. She was always that way, no matter what happened or to whom. Even Tommaso getting a bullet through the chest hadn’t changed her disposition.

I watched her yank the sheets from my bed as I lurked near the window.

“No blood the last few days,” she sang to herself, which made my cheeks go a fiery red. “Off your period, then?”

I wasn’t sure it was possible to turn redder than I already was. The blood she’d