Olivia was right. That was how Ethan treated her all the while.

He had enough of the pain of losing her. Thus, he wanted to make her stay by his side so that she was never out of his sight.

"Liv, I tried to let you go and give you freedom. But it turned out this way in the end." The agony was eating him up as he tried to suppress it.

He said, "I tried to control myself."

His self-control was useless. Before Olivia could walk out of the darkness, he had pushed her further.

The days she went missing were horrible to him. He was basically a living zombie.

Thus, he had made up his mind. He wouldn't care if his method would make her resent him.

It was better than not being able to see and touch her. Without her, it was suffering as though someone had sapped his soul out of his body.

Olivia looked at the agonized Ethan. "Why do we have to end up like this?"

Their relationship was an entanglement of chains that could not be unshackled.

No matter what happened and no matter how much