Chapter 15. Jericho

When Olive returned from the bathroom a few minutes later, she found hot towels in a flask and two shopping bags on the bed. She immediately took a hot towel and placed it around her neck. She winced at first, but it was quickly soothing, so she let it stay there. She checked the contents of the bags and discovered they were new clothes.

“Why does he keep buying new clothes? How about the ones he bought for me the other day? Where are they even?” she asked no one in particular.

Olive found a short black dress and loved it immediately. She smoothed it out on the bed and decided to wear it. She put it on, and it looked splendid on her. It had a round neck and a print pattern from the waist to the knees. Little shiny stones were studded around the chest area, glittering as she moved. She walked to the mirror and finger-combed her hair. There was nothing else to style it with, so she just let it fa