Chapter 126

• Olivia had heard about that, of course. But still, Ignazio’s public acknowledgment of their marriage—done without her presence—did nothing to ease her heart.
• The stares, the whispers, the unspoken judgments would remain. People’s negative thoughts would turn into cruel assumptions about her.
• Ignazio’s defense and his confession that they were married would only make those assumptions seem true in the eyes of others—that Olivia, the nanny, had finally achieved her goal of winning over her wealthy employer, using an innocent child as bait.