Chapter 13

"Olivia's point-of-view" Meanwhile, I had landed in Alaria. Despite the flight being more than ten hours long, Saoirse hadn't made a peep throughout the journey, which had set my heart at ease. After disembarking from the plane, I retrieved the Alarian SIM card Damien had prepared for me from the envelope and inserted it into my phone. I saw Wanda Verano and Xavier Holt, Damien's wife and son, at the arrival gates. Xavier was eight years older than me. After my parents passed away, he had been by my side for a long time, staying and talking with me whenever he could. Wanda kept rubbing my face. When she noticed the wound on my forehead, she whispered, "You've been through a lot, Olivia. If your parents saw you in this state, they were going to be in such a panic." I had grown up in the science academy residences. The Holts had been my neighbors at the time. My parents passed away while conducting one of their research projects when I was only five years old. At the time, I had tho