Olivia POV
Roman didn't dignify that with an answer. He said something low and sharp to the security guard who'd finally caught up behind her, and within a minute Vanessa was being escorted, still smiling that razor-thin smile, back out through the door she'd walked through like she owned it.
The silence after she left was almost worse than the noise had been.
Ethan hadn't moved from my side. When I finally looked down at him properly, his whole body was shaking, silent tears streaming down his face, one hand still fisted so tight in my sleeve that the fabric had gone damp with sweat.
"Hey," I said softly, crouching down to his level. "Hey, it's over. She's gone."
He shook his head hard, like gone wasn't a concept he trusted anymore, and pressed his face into my shoulder instead of an
