Their Forever - Chloe Kent Page 0,58
never felt so helpless in all her life. And one thing made sense. She wouldn't stop telling Liam she loved him. She didn't care if he punished her blue and black every day, all day, but she wasn't going to not utter those words to him out of fear of being reprimanded. She was going to break him down the same way he broke her down.
But she couldn't allow herself to even think she could love Kade at the expense of Liam believing she didn't love him.
And ultimately if it meant hating one man she loved to prove another she did love him, that's what she would do.
Chapter Thirteen
Olivia reread the words on the glossy little note her husband had left her. He wasn't giving her enough of a chance to… to find herself again.
After her confrontation with Kade two mornings ago, she had hardly seen him.
She caught glimpses of him when he slipped in and out of Liam's study but for the most part, he stayed away from her, and since she didn't need to leave the house for anything, he didn't have to drive her anywhere. And she didn't know how to take that. Not when the weight of her pending punishment still loomed above her head.
On his part, Liam seemed to be in good spirits even when she had asked him about her punishment. He had told her she would know when he informed her and that signified the end of the topic. Together with the topic of him firing Kade for her. She had pushed him as far as she could, until she knew if it went any further, there would be more consequences for her. All he had wanted was one good enough reason to fire Kade, and she couldn't give him that. She couldn't say because when she was around both men, only their nearness mattered. That she felt complete in their company. As if Liam had opened her heart and filled it with himself but had deliberately left half empty, like he'd been waiting for Kade to fill the other half.
No. She was being stupid.
Kade didn't love her. He much less liked her. He touched her because for whatever reason Liam had concocted in his head, her husband had called in a serious favor for that to happen. And Kade would do whatever Liam asked him to do.
She ran her fingers across the strong confident curves of her husband's handwriting. She missed him, seeing him only for a quick breakfast before he had to leave again, busy with a merger that was taking up all his time.
But tonight, he had cleared his evening. He had left her a note that morning informing her she was to wait in the Black Room at seven.
She knew what she needed to get done, how to present herself in the Black Room. She had but an hour left to prepare. She showered and smothered her skin in a thick rose-scented lotion. She left her hair free of any restraints and glided her arms through the silk sleeves of a black kimono with red flowers trimming the hem, her feet in soft satin slippers.
She padded her way to the Black Room, opened the door, and walked to the little red cushion on which she had to kneel while she waited for Liam.
With her hands in her lap, she steadied her breathing, vowing that she would take whatever punishment Liam had prepared for her without question. He could shatter her boundaries, all of them, and she would allow it. She would demonstrate that she had learned her lesson, that she would never put herself in danger like that ever again. And she wouldn't, not ever.
But more than that she wanted to prove again her loyalty was with Liam. That only he owned her. That she loved him only. Even if she wasn't allowed to say those words to him, he would see the evidence of it when he administered what could only be a vigorous, stringent, and merciless punishment, but she would only receive it with love, that he would never doubt her love for him ever again. She didn't need Kade. He would see that. She repeated it even as her heart constricted in her chest. She did need Kade… as much as she did Liam. She let the tear that had seeped on her cheek dry there.
She was doing the right thing. She couldn’t have Liam believing she was only loyal to him but loved another. That's