OLIVIA
I should have watched my back… and my steps. And maybe my words. Because now? I’d just turned to face the devil.
And it wasn’t a good view at all.
“What did you just say about me?”
Her voice dripped with venom, and I found my tongue tied as she tilted her head forward, a snarl on her lips.
I swallowed hard. “I—I was about to leave.”
My ears picked up Axel’s footsteps getting closer, his stony, authoritative voice spoke out to Nelly.
“Let her go, Nel.”
“I see that someone has been overstepping their boundaries,” The fact that she refused to take her eyes off me haunted me. “You had the guts to utter my name out of your wretched mouth? Because Axel has been f*****g you?”
Axel’s voice rang out again. “Nelly, stop.”
“No, you stop,” she lashed at him, staring at him fiercely wh
