Husband With Benefits
Chapter 518: Nora’s Visit

Chapter 518: Nora’s Visit

As Nora rushed into the hospital room, her eyes widened at Olivia’s tear streaked face. Worried, she quickly raced to her and hugged her tightly, wanting to know if she was okay.

Olivia nodded and as Nora stepped away to look at her, she even tried to give her a faint smile as she said, "I’m sorry if I scared you with the sudden call. I called you as soon as Seb left. I didn’t know what to do..."

Nora patted Olivia’s back gently, " There. There. Aunty Nora is here. What do you want to talk about?"

Olivia gave her a watery smile. Nora was too young to be anyone’s Aunty let alone her.

With a sigh, she said, " I’m falling more in love with Seb each day...He’s just too..." After making her confession,Olivia burst into tears again.

Nora stared. Of all the things she had expected to hear when she rushed here, after hearing Olivia crying, this was not what she had expected... She was crying because she loved Seb? That wasn’t news, right?

Looking at Olivia’s crying face, Nora asked in a bit of confusion, " Uhh.. do you want me to beat him up? For making you fall more in love with him?"

Nothing else could have caught her attention as Olivia looked up in confusion, " What did you say?"

"Well, I asked if you want me to beat him up?" Nora asked seriously while Olivia giggled, forgetting her tears.

"No. I don’t want you to beat him up..." Olivia murmured and Nora relaxed at the sight of her smile but then she continued," Even though he wants to divorce me..."

Nora frowned. "What did you say?"

Like a dam bursting, Olivia started the entire story about how Seb had been taking care of her but also making sure that they wouldn’t have any important conversation, she had sensed that he was somehow avoiding her even though he was physically prsent with her. How se then pulled off the ruse of sleeping and how he confessed to wanting to divorce her, assuming that she was asleep...

Nora heard the entire story and frowned. No wonder Demetri had said that his brother was a fool. Seb really was planning to divorce Olivia? Sigh! The man needed to get an X ray and look for his brain! It seemed to have floated to his toes!

"Then you do need me to beat him up! Just you wait, I’ll get Isabella and Evana to come and bring a few bats. We’ll bash up his precious racing cars and then bash him up as well. How could you just stay there and pretend to be asleep? You should have clawed his eyes out! He was even within range and would not have expected that..."

Olivia laughed at that, forgetting her sadness for a moment," My gosh! You are a blood thirsty one! No! I couldn’t have clawed his eyes out because I am going to pretend that I don’t know anything about his plans."

Nora paused at that. "What do you mean you’re going to pretend? You’re not an ostrich, you know. And this is not a good time to pretend being one. You need to let me beat some sense into him."

"I’m not being an ostrich, Nora. In fact, I am trying to not be an ostrich."

"Okay. I think our wires are somewhat crossed. It must be your pregnancy brain... unable to communicate properly."

Olivia gave a tired smile and said," This entire ordeal has taught me something about myself. Something I never knew. I’ve been an ostrich all these years, refusing to see Seb’s love for me due to my own guilt and feelings of inadequacy. I made mistake after mistake but did nothing to rectify it, only scared to take a step but also somewhat angry at him for not doing that. And now that I see Seb doing the same thing, I have clarity like never before."

"Some things are not in our hands. The past is already gone. He feels guilty and his solution is to separate himself from me. Exactly what I did in the past while he continued to show me his love by protecting me silently. And now, he’s making the same mistake I did, blaming himself."

"Having a conversation with Emma also gave me a shock. I’ve never done anything actively to strengthen our relationship, Nora. To show my love to Seb, I have never taken the initiative. Look at Emma. She did everything she could to get Seb’s love, didn’t she?"

Nora looked at Olivia as if she has sprouted a different head," Emma was delulu..."

"I know. But I’ve realized that sometimes, delulu is the only solulu..."¹

Nora stared in horror at Olivia. Was insanity an infectitious disease? Or had Seb’s talk of a divorce pushed her into shock?

Olivia smiled and shook her head," Nora. I need your help."

Nora nodded her head this time. She had no idea what kind of a help but yeah, she’d do anything for her friend.

Olivia’s eyes glinted as she gestured Nora close and started to outline her plan. As Nora heard this she nodded in agreement. Oh yes. She could get on with this kind of a program. Rubbing her hands together, she shook her head in admiration and murmured," You’re going to be my idol for romance inspiration."

Olivia shook her head at Nora’s flattery and finally leaned back, caressing her stomach. The little ones were getting active by the day and as she felt theie tiny movements, she knew that very soon, the last bit of the barrier between their parents would be gone.

He wanted to divorce her? As if she’d let that happen...

Nora rubbed her hands together and quickly leaned in and pecked Olivia on the cheek," Seb is not going to know what hit him! I never would have expected something like this from you! Wow! You’ve managed to impress me, Olivia Brown Frost... I’ll get to the preparations....

Visit freewe𝑏n(o)v𝒆l.𝑐𝘰𝑚 for the best novel reading experience