Olivia’s POV
Andre had to hurry out for an important meeting, but I made sure to give him my suppressants before he left.
I was sitting in my room alone and began to feel restless. I had paced around the room anxiously, but nothing seemed to work.
I flopped down on the bed angrily and sighed loud enough for someone outside my door to hear.
Finally, the realisation hit me. I was probably just tense, and maybe a walk around the mansion would do me some good.
I made up my mind and changed my clothes into something more decent. I looked myself over in the mirror a few times and finally decided to leave.
I left my room and headed down the staircase. I heard the sound of another door opening. I turned around and saw Lexi walk out of the room with a smirk, adjusting her bra strap.
“Lexi!”
She turned to look at me, but her face was twisted in disgust. Her eyes washed over me in disdain, and she still didn’t say anything.
“What are you doing here? Who invited…”
The door creaked open again, and Jonas stepped out with a huge grin on his face.
“Jonas?!”
Lexi saw the confusion on my face, and I saw a smile creep over her disgusted lips. She turned to Jonas and gave him a light peck on the cheek.
“Thank you so much for the wonderful time. I hope to have you again. You were – amazing.”
I was horrified by everything she had said. It didn’t take a genius to put two and two together and know that they had had sex in his room.
Lexi stared daggers at me before she finally went down the staircase, leaving Jonas and me alone in awkwardness.
It took a while before I could finally regain my composure, but I was still shocked by what Jonas had done. Why did it have to be her?
“I didn’t think that your tastes could be so low. I expected your standards to be better and not involve you fraternising with a slut.”
Jonas glowered at me and took a threatening step forward.
“Standards? You are one to talk about standards. How dare you even judge me? Is this really coming from a girl who had a job to do to honour her father, but immediately her boo showed up, and she ditched the entire mission. I don’t think you have the right to be talking about standards, Olivia.”
His voice was coarse and icy. He had never spoken to me like that before.
“How could you?! You were with Lexi! Do you have any idea what she did to me?!”
Jonas rolled his eyes and side in annoyance.
“I honestly don’t care what happened between the both of you. I am more concerned that your mate has made you lose focus on what you planned to do. He’s a distraction to you, Olivia. All you have been doing these past few days is playing slut for him. If we had gone the day he came to arrest me at the convenience store, we would have reached Elvis Pine, found out about your dad and had been back.”
My body began to tremble in anger. Did he just call me Andre’s slut?
“How dare you? I have been with my mate. He was worried about me, so I had to come home so that we could prepare for the trip to Elvis Pine. You said it yourself that going there is dangerous and that with Andre’s help, we have a better chance of being safer…”
He scoffed, throwing his head backwards.
“Planning? Really? Well, I haven’t seen any planning going on since we got here. Unless you’re trying to say that planning involves him fucking you in every place in this mansion, then yeah, I suppose you have been planning quite well.”
I felt tears well up in my eyes, and my cheeks burnt hot with embarrassment.
“How dare you talk about him like that…”
“I am honestly disappointed in you, Olivia. I thought that you were better than this. What happened to the brave girl I met at the end who was determined to make a father proud? Imagine if your father saw you now. What would he think? You made a promise to him, and now you’re going back on that promise because your mate said a few naughty things to you.”
His words made my heart sing in shame and anger. He had no right to judge me, and he certainly had no standards sleeping with the slut like Lexi, who insulted me just because I was mated to Andre.”
I could only imagine the terrible gossip and rumours she would spread at school. Things with Andre were tough enough, but he had made them ten times worse now.
“Olivia, I…
Jonas took a step towards me, but I pushed him back furiously. I had angry tears in my eyes, and all I could think about was how much I hated him now.
“Don’t you dare come a step closer to me, Jonas! I hate you, and if you want to keep sleeping with sluts like Lexi, then go ahead! But you have no right to bring Andre and my dad into this conversation! You do not know how hard things have been for me since I got here. I’m only trying to make things right, but you’re making them even more difficult now!
I stormed back upstairs to my room and slammed the door behind me. I fell on my bed and cried hot tears. Deep down, Jonas’ words sunk deeper into my heart.
Maybe he was right. I had lost focus on what I wanted to do. I had not made any plans with Andre, and maybe if my dad were seeing me now, he would have been ashamed of what I had become.