Chapter 0309

Hannah

I stood there, frozen in shock as I stared at the tiny bundle in Lily’s arms. A baby. My sister had a baby. When? How? Why was this the first I was hearing of it? Why, when I asked if I heard a baby crying the other night, had she kept it from me?

“Surprise!” Lily exclaimed, her face beaming as she hurried up to me. “Hannah, meet your niece, Olivia.”

“I… what?” I stammered, unable to form a coherent thought as I stared down at the tiny face looking up at me. “When… When did this happen?”

Lily’s smile faltered slightly. “I sent you letters,” she explained. “I’m assuming you never got them.”

I shook my head, still trying to process the information. “No, I… I never received any letters.”

1 figured–as much,” Lily said. I guess they must have gotten lost in the mail.”

“But I heard the baby crying on the phone the other night,” I said. “Why did you lie?”

bit sheepish. “I figured you didn’t know, so I decided to

course I’m not mad. But how… when?” I reached for the little bundle and pulled the fabric aside, revealing the scrunched up face of a newborn. My niece couldn’t have been more than a few weeks old. She was

‘ghost pregnancy–my stomach stayed flat, and I even got my period throughout. But here she is, my happy little surprise. Born

arms. The weight of her, so small and warm, brought tears to my eyes. To think that

Lily,” I


her, eyeing her ring finger. Noticing my gaze, she quickly said, “The father isn’t

little one without a father; I supposed if my sister could do it, so could I. If anything, it just made me want to tell

I cradled my new niece, I felt a presence beside me and looked up to see Noah, his eyes

bouncing the baby a little, “did you

me with genuine confusion in his eyes. “No,

none. For once, I believed him. I didn’t think that he had intercepted any letters, perhaps they had just gotten

important thing is you’re both here now. How about we head inside?

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