"Olivia had expected it to happen. It would be too naive of her to think he’d been partnerless during her absence, especially when the length of it was undetermined, but watching them together is something else. She wonders if this is how people saw her and Elliot. She remembers when he would lean down beside her and talk quietly to her and take any opportunity to touch her and instinctively smile when his eyes landed on her."
febuwhump2023 — Day 26— Prompt: forced to choose