Chapter 248: Impartial Advice

For a moment of comfortable silence, the cousins watched the passing view of woodland until they caught sight of children walking in a line with their guardians herding them.

"I never expected that I would one day want a child…" Olivia trailed off. She swallowed when her words seemed to be lodged in her throat. 

"That's what all the birth control is for, remember?" Eli added, tugging Olivia's ears as if reminding her of the fact.

She pulled away from Eli and leaned on the seat. She rubbed her fingers on her forehead, smoothening the creases that formed on it.

"Please call me crazy," Olivia requested.

"Nope. You're always crazy. No need for reiteration. Why? Is something wrong?"

"Yes," Olivia trailed off.

For an inexplicable reason, Eli didn't seem to be bothered even when Olivia admitted that something was wrong.