jotimm
Olivia spent a lot of time inside her own head.
She thought about the life she was building, the person she wanted to become, and all the ways she still seemed to fall short of her own expectations. At twenty-one, she was trying to find her place in the world while carrying an anxiety she had learned to live around rather than understand.
Then she became Catherine Leventis's assistant.
Catherine was nearly twice her age, married, intimidating, and unlike anyone Olivia had ever known. What began as curiosity slowly became something Olivia had no experience naming, forcing her to question not only who she could love, but who she was becoming.
But falling in love was only part of it.
Olivia would learn what it meant to want something she couldn't keep. She would learn heartbreak, and the strange grief of letting go. She would make mistakes, lose pieces of herself, find others she hadn't known were missing, and discover that sometimes a second chance doesn't look anything like the first.
This is a story about falling in love with a woman.
But more than that, it is about a young woman slowly learning how to live with herself.