CHAPTER 99

OLIVIA

Guilt ate away at me, now that I knew that Nick wasn’t the one who sent those people to hurt me in prison. I felt guilty that I was doing all that to him. yes, he did his fair share of hurtful things to me, but I did not want him to die. One day Samuel was going to ask who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life.

I want to be able to look my son in the eyes one day and tell him who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life growing up. It would kill me to have to tell him that his father died, and I had a hand in it. “Ethan, I don’t want Nick in our lives, he might be innocent on somethings, but he has done a lot to me and his presence in our lives right now, is putting my son and everyone I love in danger.”

Ethan nodded, he knew as well as I did that the decision I made to keep Nick away, was not taken lightly. I was sorry he was sick but as guilty as I felt, I couldn’t let him back in, not with Sandra still on the loose and not when he is still protecting the woman. “I k