“I don’t know.” I shook my head. “It’s easy to say I want that, and it’s easy for Julian to promise we’ll be a family. But it’s so much harder for it to actually happen, especially with Olivia around.”
“She won’t be on the trip,” Anna pointed out.
I wasn’t so sure. Olivia always seemed to show up at the worst possible moments where Julian was, like she was tracking him or something.
But, even if she didn’t physically appear during the trip, the thought of her would still haunt us.
“While I do feel close to Julian, closer than I’d ever been, even when we were actually together…” When he kept me as his secret wife, tucked away. “With how much he feels he owes Olivia, I don’t think he would ever put me, or Alice, first.”
He might have thought he would. He might even make promises about
