CHAPTER 7
After dinner each night, Benny made his way to Olivia’s cottage, hid in the bushes near her kitchen window and watched her until it was time to go to work. He was afraid that if he didn't keep her in his vision, she would fade away, like a dream you tried to remember the next day.
He watched her pottering around the kitchen, cooking dinner and eating it as she scrolled through her phone. When she went into the living room, he crept around to the other side of the cottage and peered through the slit in the shutters, though this was risky, as she only had to look up in his direction to spot him. And that would ruin everything. She’d think he was a creep and never want to see him again.
Usually she watched TV while painting her fingernails or toenails or talking on her phone. Som
