Rewriting Our Love Story

my resolve. The monster I was about to becom

om Olivia, my

I stammered, my voice ho

sed, her eyelids heavy.

d there, his face etched with concern, Ma

e you doing with Olivia?

side. "Liv, are you okay

e spiked drink, the disgusting plan, the horrifying vision of our future.

I was a mess, incoherent, b

son of a bitch," she seethed, her ey

e was silent, his gaze fixed on me, a

d on Maya' s arm. "Maya, wait." She looked at me, a strange, u

, even then. Even afte

"Maya, help me get Olivia to the hosp

look at me as he

t become, crushed me. I sank to the floor, so

oid of its usual warmth, that she' d insisted. She said I' d stopped,

new wha

e, but also a warning. A c

Olivia, away from Alex. Away

at college, those who heard whispers, looke

degree in a ha

a dead-end job. I changed my number, delet

heck, discreetly, that Olivia wasn' t

ely, paranoi

t too close. I moved to Austin. New

like a shadow,

of running into her, of falling back in

l years, I drifted. Different countries, different f

myself from their story so they could have a