Olivia
“she cried in utter dismay.The hulking figure of her captor looked up sharply, realized she was not addressing him, and returned to the task at hand—laying out the last meal before bed. “Olivia,” he said disapprovingly. “Speak in a civilized fashion, please.”By civilized, he meant to speak in his language, not hers. English had become one of those things, like television and sunrises, that belonged to the past. He would allow a brief relapse now and then, but his tolerance was thin and she r...eally didn’t want to know what he’d do if he decided he had to punish her. No, he’d never laid a hand on her (unless one counted the day of the attack, which Olivia tried not to think about at all), and he’d never raised his voice at her, but there was a hardness in him and not too deeply buried, a coldness in his eye when he sat and stared into the embers at the close of his day. Maybe it was the Stockholm’s talking, but she’d come to think of him as someone who might possibly be a good man…just a good man who wouldn’t hesitate to put her in a hard gag if she persisted in speaking English.But it helped. Even on the most frustrating days, she had to admit that not having any alternatives sure sped up the process of speaking bat-ese. His patience was tireless when it came to helping her find names for things, and it seemed that nothing embarrassed him (although she was certainly seven shades of mortified when he’d followed her into the bathroom and turned that into a language lesson), but he had so far refused to teach her any swears, so she didn’t have much of a choice when it came to repeating her mild but heartfelt expletive.“It’s not important,”MoreLess
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