Fated To Not Just One But Three novel Chapter 290

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“Yes, it is!” Calvin snapped, the first crack in his control showing. “Their family and ours are enemies. Olivia, enemies. Do you even understand the implications of what you’re doing?” 1

Then, without waiting for a response, he turned and walked away again.

The room felt colder all of a sudden.

Olivia’s POV

I blinked. “What? Who?”

Nora swallowed hard but shook her head. “No… what is there to hide?”

My mind was spinning… “How did Anita’s father use a dark spell on the triplets?”

My breath hitched.

My eyes shifted slowly to Nora, who leaned against the wall with her arms crossed.

My mind reeled. “How? Why? I thought—”

Nora nodded.

I sat up straighter. “Wait–Anita? As in the Anita?” 4

I sat in stunned silence, every part of me trying to absorb what I’d just heard.

“But what if I’m just being weak and stupid?” I asked.

He turned and walked toward the door, but before leaving, he paused, his back still to

1. me.

My silence must have said enough.

I stared at her. “What… did you say to him?”

“We’re not directly related,” I said firmly. “You know that, Calvin.”

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Tears burned at the back of my eyes, but I refused to let them fall. I stood my ground.

Lolita raised a suspicious brow at her. “Is there something you are not telling us?”

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Nora shifted beside me, then turned toward the door. “I’ll be back,” she said suddenly.

Nora looked away, clearly uncomfortable. Lolita bit her bottom lip, like she was dying to say something but knew better.

I was stunned… All of this had happened… and I hadn’t known? 2

“I haven’t forgotten,” I whispered. “But I’m trying to heal. And they’re trying too.”

I frowned. “Where are you going?”

“No.” He cut me off, his eyes blazing with anger. “No excuses, Olivia. This is disgraceful. Sleeping in the bed of the same people who ripped your heart apart? Whose family has done nothing but torment ours?”

Lolita stepped closer as she sat beside me.

I narrowed my eyes but let it slide–for now. My head was still spinning from Calvin’s outburst and his unexpected apology. 1

I sank slowly onto the edge of my bed, my arms folding around myself. My chest ached from the tension, from Calvin’s words, from the ugly truth of it all.

Just then, the door creaked open.

Lolita and I exchanged skeptical glances at Nora’s too–quick answer. Obviously, we don’t believe her.

Calvin stepped back inside, his face unreadable. And right behind him… was Nora.

I tried to stay calm. “It’s not that simple.”

“Don’t you know?” Lolita cut in, her voice more serious., “She lost the last pregnancy.”

“Whatever you think you’re doing,” he said through gritted teeth, “you need to stop.

Now.”

Calvin stared at me like I’d just confessed to committing treason.

He scoffed, stepping forward. “And what about the fact that we’re related?”

Her words sat heavy in my chest.

He glanced at the window, then back at me. “I still don’t accept them. I don’t know if I ever fully will. But I shouldn’t have said what I said like that. That was… wrong of me.”

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I sat frozen, my heart still racing.

Nora cleared her throat and changed the subject, almost too quickly. “Anyway… guess who’s in your brother’s dungeon.”

She shifted on her feet, her arms still folded, but I could see her throat bob as she swallowed hard.

Was I doing the right thing?

I lifted my chin, already bracing for the inevitable wave of judgment. “Calvin-”

“You might think this is love,” he said, voice colder now, “but this is just obsession.”

His jaw was clenched so tightly I thought it might crack. His hands fisted at his sides, and I could practically feel the rage radiating off him. But to his credit, he didn’t yell. Not yet. His voice, when it came, was low… controlled.

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