POV: Olivia

She sat down across from us, and for a long moment, nobody spoke. Then she looked at me and said, with something that was not quite bitterness and not quite grief and lived in the complicated space between them. Dominic said a few words to the security guard, and then he whispered something to me, saying the needs to attend to an urgent matters. He had a few calls to make, do he is stepping out of the facility, giving us a chance to talk.

“You came.”

“Yes, I’m here,” I said.

“Why?” she scoffed. I had prepared for this question. Had thought carefully about what I wanted...