Chapter 0443

Chapter 0443

“Oh?”

He nodded, letting Melody play with the seashell around his neck as he bounced her in his arms. “I can’t sleep without you, Hannah.”

He said it so simply, so matter–of–factly; and yet I felt my throat close in response, my heart momentarily stilling in my chest.

Little did he know that I’d had a rough time sleeping since we’d separated, too.

And now here he was, holding our daughter in bed. I never thought it would come to this, but the sight of it made me tear up.

Clearing my throat, I turned and began rearranging the plates on the cart. “Lily and I made breakfast,” I said, pushing the cart up to the edge of the bed. “Thought it might be nice to have breakfast in bed. You, me, and Melody.”

Noah’s eyes widened as he took in the sight of all the food. “Hannah, you should have woken me-”

my head. “I wanted

filled with unspoken words–and Melody’s happy little gurgles as

the silence. He held out his free arm, beckoning to me. “Come

against his side, tucking my legs up underneath me. Noah, noticing my emotional state, brushed

“Thank you, Hannah.”

“It’s just breakfast-”

He hiked Melody up in his arms, holding her between us. Her big green eyes, the exact same shade as his own, lit up


himself, to Melody, to the room, to the steaming food sitting in front of us. “It’s everything. Thank you. For doing it all

uselessly. To think that we

first tear was about to slip out, Noah picked up a strawberry and held

exploded on my tongue–and also on our daughter, whose face scrunched up at the sensation of sticky sweetness hitting the

choking with laughter, as her mouth opened in a perfect little ‘o‘ of surprise,

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