Chapter 40

OLIVIA’S POV The moment I slammed the door and collapsed to the floor, all the walls I had built up inside me shattered. No matter how many times I convince myself that he doesn’t deserve the love I have in my heart, with just one touch or one kiss, he manages to shatter all my delusions. I have loved Dominic with all my heart and soul—so completely, so painfully—that losing him always feels like destroying a major part of myself. And I don’t think I will ever truly come back from that. But I also know now, in the deepest part of me, that he is not worth it anymore. Not the tears. Not the ache. Not the years I spent trying to be enough for a man who never saw me. Still, it hurt. Gods, it hurt. I hated how my heart still raced at the sound of his voice. I hated how, even when he broke me, I still wanted him to come back and fix it. It was like being trapped in a storm with no shelter—constantly hoping the lightning wouldn’t strike me, even as I stood out in the open. Part of me wanted t