Husband With Benefits

Eventually, Vivienne sighed again," Olivia, come back with me to country J..."

Olivia shook her head stubbornly to refuse," Vivienne..."

"No, Olly, you need to hear me out." Vivienne’s spoke in a voice that held a hint of desperation. "In the past, I understood why you wanted to stay here. Auntie was here, and you couldn’t bear to leave her. But now, it’s just us. You’ve sold your business, Auntie is gone, and even Seb Frost is moving on with his life. We’re all each other has left, Olly. The only blood family remaining, and we need to stick together."

"Family? Family does not stab you in the back and break up a relationship you cherish. Family doesn’t push you down when you are already drowning. I have no family left, Vivienne. Least of all you."

Vivienne’s eyes widened with hurt as she reached out, her hand trembling slightly when Olivia pulled away her hands instead of letting her hold them. "Olly, please, let me explain," she pleaded softly, her voice laced with desperation.

Her eyes glistened with unshed tears, her shoulders slumped as she continued," I know you’ve always believed that I betrayed you. But even after all this time, do you not see that everything I did, every decision I made, was out of love for you. I was protecting you, guiding you toward what’s best. Look back at the past and tell me that you are not better off!"

"Look at Seb? He is almost known as a man-who*e! If you’d remained with him, then would you have had this successful business? Would you have been independent? No! He would have married you, kept you at home raising children while he continued to sow his wild oats outside! Your life would have been ruined while his would have continued as it is now!"

"You didn’t know that! Are you some kind of a foreseer who can predict the future Vivienne? You’d made yourself clear that you did not approve of him. Wasn’t that enough? You had no right to ruin this for me. To take the decision out of my hands while doing something so despicable. You have no right to point fingers at him when the only person to blame in all this is you."

"Can you not let go of the past? Did you not hear what I said? He has already moved on! In fact, he’d moved on a long time ago but you insisted on believing that in the end he would come to you! But now he is even marrying someone else."

"I know about his marriage, Vivienne." Olivia spoke quietly. "And I’ve accepted it. But you need to accept that every action has a consequence. It doesn’t matter what the end result is. You broke what we had, and I have no intention of repairing it. So go back and don’t ever look for me again."

Vivienne shook her head,"I won’t give up on us, Olly! I will take you back! That Sebastian Frost...he is responsible for..."