Leah
It happened on a Tuesday.
Not a dramatic day. Not the kind of day that should have changed anything.
I was standing at Olivia’s kitchen counter in socks, staring at a bowl of cereal I could not make myself finish, when Olivia’s phone buzzed on the table.
She glanced at it.
Then her face went still.
Not blank.
Worse than blank.
Like her brain had hit something it could not process yet.
“Olivia?” I asked.
She looked up at me. Her eyes had gone furious in the way they did when she was trying very hard not to show it.
She pushed the phone across the counter without speaking.
I wiped my palms on my leggings and picked it up.
A headline filled the screen.
Fairfax Industries CEO Jacob Fairfax Announces Engagement.
My vision blurred.
For a second, the words did not mean anythi
