Chapter b109 /b

    Julian’s POV

    My first instinct, as with most things Olivia wanted from me nowadays, was to say no. Yet, just as the rejection was on the tip of my tongue, Olivia continued.

    “I know I’ve been messing up a lottely,i” /ishe said, seeming pitiful yet sincere. “But I swear it’s only because I care so much about you. It’s… challenging for me, watching you when you are around Amber.

    It’s like you be a different person, and it scares me. I swear I’ve only been trying to protect you all

    this time.”

    “You told Amber you were pregnant,” I said. “That put a rift between us that I still haven’t been able to

    repair.”

    “I’m sorry about that,i” /ishe said. “Truly, I thought it was best at the time. Now I can see that I overstepped. I

    never wanted to hurt either of you. I thought… well, I wanted to apologize tonight, with this. The wine is

    something of a peace offering.”

    After everything that Olivia had done these past few weeks alone, I was skeptical about this apology. But … I truly did feel at a low point. Olivia and I had once been close. Though there had been much between us

    to drive a wedge into that friendship, the thought of someradery right now wasn’t the worst sounding idea to me in this moment.

    Still, I hesitated. Telling Amber she was pregnant was a low blow. It was difficult to get over that.

    “I’m ready to move on and let go,” she said. “I promise, I won’te between you and Amber anymore

    ever again.”

    “You mean that?” I asked, not fully believing it. After all, she hadmitted all this time to waiting for me to want to marry her, despite my many attempts at requesting she move on from me.

    “You know I love you,i” /ishe said. “Those feelings aren’t going to change, but…” She sighed a little. “Seeing Amber repeatedly reject you hurt me, Julian. My actions here weren’t to hurt you, but in an attempt to get her to finally see the damage she is doing ito /iyou by treating you so coldly.”

    Amber had been rejecting me… but I still didn’t think that warranted any of Olivia’s actions.

    “Please, Julian. For old times‘ sake. Hear me out,” she said. “Let me in, and let me fully apologize, I want to mend the things that have strained between us. We had such a good friendship once. We could have that again.”

    I was tired. Emotionally, Physically. I was hurting inside after Amber’s rejection, and I felt out of sorts since Alpha raging against Chase. Maybe a reset was in order.

    Olivia had been one of my oldest friends. If we could go back to that, without the drama getting in the way

    It would be nice to have someone to talk to.

    “Fine,” I said. “I will hear you out for the length of one ss. But that’s it.”

    b“/bI’ll take it,” she said, suddenly hopeful.

    Slowly, I stepped back from the door and allowed her to enter. Once she was inside, I closed the door

    behind her.

    Still facing the door, I rubbed my hand down my face. What was I doing, going along with this? Was I

    really so desperate for someone to talk to that I was weing Olivia back into my life?

    Olivia ced the sses down on the desk in the room. As she worked to uncork the bottle, she said,”

    Seeing Chase here was something of a shock. I never thought a socialite yboy like him would be caught dead in the country.”

    I hummed, not really wanting to talk or think about Chase.

    “Amber seems to like him,” I said, despite myself. The thought had been bouncing around inside of my mind so much that it only seemed natural for it to fall out of my mouth now.

    “Oh,i” /iOlivia said. “Well, I’m sure she knows what she’s doing.”

    “Maybe,” I said, but I wasn’t so sure. She’d been so distant with me today. It felt like all the steps I had

    moved forward during that pizza dinner with Amber and Alice had been entirely erased.

    She must have heard about my rage. From Chase? Gods, I should have talked to her about it, to clear the

    air. But how would I have exined myself? Would she have believed if I told her he baited me?

    Maybe I could have Olivia speak to her on my behalf, but would Olivia even consent to do that? And after

    all of Olivia’s lies, would Amber even believe her?

    Gods, what a mess. And I had ino /iidea how to fix it.

    “Why don’t I pour us a drink?i” /iOlivia said. “Some alcohol might clear our heads.”

    Curtly, I nodded.

    Olivia’s POV

    Olivia poured two sses of white wine. Then, after waiting for Julian’s back to turn, she reached between her breasts, plucking a pill from where she had earlier tucked it into her bra for safe keeping.

    Smiling to herself, she dropped the pill into Julian’s ss and watched it dissolve.

    The pill was an aphrodisiac, specialized for werewolves, particrly Alphas who had a heightened immune system that would fight off most things, even medicines designed to help.

    With a pill like this in his system, Julian would be horny as hell, looking for relief wherever he could find olliit. What a coincidence, Olivia just happened to be in the same room. /li/ol

    One thing would lead to another, and she was certain they would have sex. With that pill woulde stamina. They’d have sex all night to ensure Olivia would get pregnant.

    She wanted a real child that was truly theirs. Not the deception ofst time. Not even adopting the brat

    Amber was raising.

    She wanted a child between Julian and her. Then he’d never be able to pass her by again.

    And Amber would never be able to forgive his betrayal for a second time.

    When the pill fully dissolved, she picked up both sses, careful to hand the one with the pill to Julian.

    He took it from her hand.

    “Things haven’t been easy,” Julian said. “Sometimes I think Amber doesn’t even see how much I’m

    trying.”

    Olivia tried to smile as nicely as she could, even as she looked on with impatience in her heart.

    Just drink, damn it.

    Wait he kept her waiting, continuing to talk about Amber.

    That was fine. She had all night, and she could be patient. She’d waited this long.

    But one way or another, tonight was going to be the night she made Julian hers once and for all.

    Chase’s POV

    Julian really had kept Olivia standing outside his door for a while, Chase realized as he watched the

    footage he had captured with his phone. Yet, that dy had given him all the time he needed to get the perfect angle from down here in the parking lot.

    The phone camera had focused, the lighting just right, to show Julian weing Olivia and her bottle of

    wine into his room.

    Chase smirked, his own nsing into focus. Olivia hadn’t told him to do this part, but he was nothing if not thorough.

    Besides, Amber was a beautiful woman. In her heartbreak, she would need aforting shoulder to cry

    on,

    Chase would make sure he’d be there to be that shoulder.

    Oneforting gesture would lead to another.

    With luck, maybe he’d have Amber in his bed before the end of the week.