Chapter 272

Olivia's POV

"How long are you going to resist?" His gaze changed, and he looked at me with sad eyes as he waited for my answer. But he would wait forever. Because I didn't know. I didn't know how long. I didn't know how long I could keep the herbal mixture down, even though my body was already resisting it. I had already felt the side effects of my experiment, and they were anything but nice.

He stepped closer and looked me in the eye urgently.

"Don't you feel how much we need each other?" The tips of our noses were only centimeters apart. "I can hear your heart beating faster when I’m with you. I see the hairs on the back of your neck stand up as soon as I touch you. I feel the goosebumps that form when I whisper something to you."

I had to pull myself together and put the words together in my head.

"I don't know what you mean." I avoided his gaze and looked away, but he grabbed my face, took it in both hands, and looked at me hesitan