Chapter 0445

Hannah

I couldn’t help but feel guilty as I stared out the car window.

The tall trees passing by were a dense green blur, the scent of pine and fresh air filling my nostrils even from inside the car. The sky was the clearest blue, perfect for an outing in the countryside. Melody was cooing happily in the backseat without a care in the world.

Noah was taking us on a weekend trip, just the three of us, and I should have been elated beyond

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But instead I just felt… tired. Panicky. A little confused.

“Quit picking at your lip,” Noah suddenly said, the sound of his voice ripping me out of my reverie. “I swear, Hannah, if you’re thinking about work right now”

that’s all,” I replied as I quickly sat on my hand to keep myself from nervously picking at the dry skin on my lower lip. “If I had a couple

of mild disappointment crossing his features. “You’ll work yourself to the bone,

make anyone stressed,” I quipped. “One weekend vacation could be enough to paint

occasion–but instead sighed and said, “I know. But you’re still Hannah, beyond

slid down a little further in my seat. “You’re right,” I admitted,


appreciate it if I could still

it a squeeze. That gesture alone was enough to set me on fire, and suddenly, the idea of a weekend getaway in

road riddled with potholes, causing Melody to whine in protest in her car seat, but once

this place?” I breathed

shoulders. “It took a lot

it was a sweet little cottage nestled into the edge of a forest clearing, a little stone

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