This was just one more reason that Alice shouldn’t return home. Julian should just focus on his and Olivia’s child, make her the heir. Keep Alice out of it.
“You will send him away, won’t you? Now that you know I’m pregnant,” Olivia said. Her face shifted then, losing its cockiness to take on a more pleading façade. I had no idea if it was real, but I knew she could play pretend very well if she wanted to. I couldn’t trust her.
“I don’t want him here,” I said, though the words felt like lies on my tongue. “It would be better if he returned home.”
“Then you’ll send him away?” Olivia asked.
“It’s not that easy,” I said. Though I didn’t want to tell her the specifics, I couldn’t just pretend he would actually listen to me if I told him to leave. “You know how stubborn he is.”
She frowned
