CHAPTER NINETEEN
AXEL
Nothing ever goes right in my f*****g life. I was about to tell Olive what was going on when she dropped that bomb on me.
My hands go to the pockets on either side of my shorts, searching for something.
The box.
I take it out in my hand, watching the light of the bastard sun glint off of it. Not an engagement ring, yet, as much as I’d like it to be. I always hoped my grandmother’s ring would look beautiful on Olive’s hand.
No, this was to be a promise ring.
A promise to hold and to love her, forever and now. To be there for both her and Lark, when they need me and especially when they think they don’t.
But somehow, I f****d it up. Just like I f**k up everything. I don’t know what I did to make Olive hate me so much. I want to believe that deep down she still l
