Chapter 0296

Hannah & Noah

Hannah’s POV

The next few days passed in a blur of awkward silences and forced interactions. Noah showed up every day, like clockwork, for our two–hour ‘bonding‘ sessions, seemingly unfazed about missing work.

I couldn’t decide if I liked it or hated it. On one hand, it was nice to have some company and to see him making an effort. On the other, it felt like a constant reminder of my trapped situation. Despite my last outburst, he still seemed convinced that he could force me to stay married to him, or maybe change my mind.

Well, it wasn’t happening. I just needed some time to think and plan, and then I would get the hell out of here. I had been telling the truth that night after the nursery store; I had no intentions of staying with him.

Still, during these sessions, Noah tried various activities to engage me as if that would somehow help.

One day, as I was hiding in my room in the hopes that he would leave me be, he burst into the room with a box in his hand and tossed it on the floor next to the bed.

“I thought we could work on this together,” he said, sitting cross–legged on the floor.

my bed, I eyed the box warily and picked it up, turning it over in my hands.

shrugged. “Why not? It might be…

anyway, knowing that he wouldn’t leave until the puzzle was finished–so it was easier and faster if we

he was not to touch my hand, how

tried to pretend that the moments our hands almost touched but didn’t weren’t actually incredibly painful

too small with both of

up from

I shrugged “I’m fine.”

I swore I could hear the relief in

real Noah, or just another act? I was leaning toward the latter, he only “cared‘ about the morning sickness because

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