Olivia POV
“Who is that man down the stairs, Mommy?”
Timothy asked me sleepily as I lay him down on his bed after a long evening. “I know he’s Hudson, but who…?”
I held my breath, wondering how I was going to explain this properly to my son. I had ripped him away from his father, for good reason, but he didn’t know that. Then I brought another man into his life, a man he didn’t know and had no reason to trust. How did I explain this to Timothy in a way he would understand and wouldn’t scare him?
“Hudson is helping us by protecting us for a while. Guarding us.”
I stroked Timothy’s hair, praying this wouldn’t be something that hurt him. “It might not be just him. A few people might do it. Just to make sure we are safe, that’s all. We have to be safe.”
We didn’t have to go into detai
