Chapter 0436

Hannah

I told him everything.

Everything.

Even the stuff that I didn’t want to think about ever again.

Over the next twenty minutes, I told Noah my entire story from beginning to end–from the moment I watched my baby’s embryo in a puddle on the floor to this very moment here, now, in this courtroom.

I told him, too, about the three months of torture that he and Zoe had put me through before my death. About Zoe’s smear campaign, about the nights spent crying myself to sleep, about the worsening body image issues.

I told him about my pill addiction–how I was taking them to the point of killing myself.

“And… Maybe I wanted to kill myself,” I whispered, my hands trembling as I toyed with the hem of my shirt, “Maybe I just wanted it all to be over, subconsciously, which was why I took so many pills. I still don’t even know if it was the diet pills themselves or the contraceptives in them that did me in.”

I saw my baby–our baby–on the floor, a little red clump of blood and flesh, I knew I wanted to live. I wanted to live, Noah. But it was too late. I was already dying… Or so I

bathroom floor three months before all of that had happened. The confusion, the uncertainty, the relief

he stepped out of the shower, his dark hair falling into his eyes, and how I had thought that he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen and yet I hated him for what

how, in those moments, I knew I needed to get away from

entire time I spoke. He just… listened while I recounted

I was breathless and exhausted. Noah was still standing in front of me,


after enduring three months of misery. But I came back. But here I

Noah was silent.

disbelief creeping into his stunned expression, and panic began to rise in my throat. My hands began to shake, and I clutched at his arms, desperate for him to

“don’t think that I’m just messing with you or that I’m insane. I genuinely believe that the Moon Goddess gave me another chance for a reason, although…”

a nearby bench, his eyes wide and unfocused.

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