Chapter 17
Olivia
I called in sick to work on Monday. I didn’t want to deal with Jason asking me any questions about me standing him up for our date, and I didn’t feel like sitting through another useless brainstorming session.
All I wanted to do was relax.
I dimmed the lights in my bathroom and lit all my favorite candles—vanilla, honeysuckle, and amber. I tossed a few Eucalyptus salts into the tub and turned on the water, squeezing generous dollops of cherry bubble bath underneath the running faucet.
I’d always felt that bubble baths were the best therapy in the world. Hot water and soapy beads had a way of helping me escape to another life—a life where I could sail to anywhere I wanted, a life where I worked because I wanted to, not because I had to.
I stepped into the tub and sli
