Olivia
“Why aren’t you with the other guests?”
Colin’s looming presence towered over me, his cold gray eyes piercing through my soul. I felt almost sickened by the expression on his face.
“I was helping in the kitchen,” I replied, somehow managing to find the courage to speak despite the strange sense of fear in my gut.
“Helping? In the kitchen?” Colin’s words came out along with a wry, condescending chuckle. “Olivia, if I had known you wanted to get your hands dirty so badly, I would have hired you to scrub my floors.”
Colin’s words cut deep. But before I could find the right answer, Nathan's familiar presence was suddenly by my side. I hardly had a second to register his arrival before his lips lightly brushed my cheek. The unexpected gesture made me blush a deep crim
