LOGINAfter I gave birth to Yates Zane's child, Leo Zane, I developed severe postpartum depression. I'd pressed a knife to my own wrist countless times. Every time, Yale fought with everything he had to hold me back when I lost control. "Don't do this. Think about the baby and me. We're here with you..." My sister, Claire Cole, and my best friend, Winnie Blake, even grabbed knives and held the blades to their own wrists. "You want to die? Fine. Then we'll die with you. Is that enough?" After that day, I committed myself to treatment. I couldn't bear to let anyone else get hurt because of me. Yet just when I thought I was finally about to see the light again, my sister took me to a wedding. There, standing on the stage were Yates and Winnie, the bride and groom of the hour. My mind went blank with a deafening buzz. The blood in my veins seemed to freeze. Claire gazed at the couple onstage with envy. "They should've had this wedding five years ago. "Your depression was the only reason the two of them spent all these years trapped by guilt." Then she suddenly turned to me. "Do you get it now? We've all been miserable because of you. "Let him go."
View MoreAfter moving to the recovery center, I gradually began to feel more at ease.I spent my days doing crafts with the other patients, and at night we sat around bonfires, singing and dancing together. Little by little, I began to understand that suicide was never the only way out. Sometimes, all it took was finding another path, even if that meant leaving the place that had been destroying you.When Yates found me again, he showed up carrying an armful of gift bags."Hanny, I don't mind you staying here. Just... don't send me away. Let me stay with you for a while."He hesitated before adding, "Every night, I hear Leo crying from the pool. I can't take it anymore."That was when I noticed the dark circles beneath his eyes. There were antidepressants tucked into his pocket too.Yet I couldn't feel sorry for him anymore."You brought that upon yourself."Yates fell silent. After a moment, he picked up one of the origami cranes beside me."I used to fold these with you. That was one of the
Hannah's POVI lay motionless in the hospital bed as the world slowly came back to me. Yates was beside me, clutching my hand so tightly that his own hands trembled."Hanny, please wake up. Please."His voice was raw from crying. "Leo's gone. I can't lose you too..."A tear slipped from the corner of my eye at the sound of our son's name.I had watched him stop struggling. Watched him sink beneath the water and take his last breath, while all I could do was lie there and watch.And Yates, Leo's own father, bore part of the blame for his death.He wiped his face and kept talking, as if there were still something he could say that would matter."I never knew Winnie would be capable of something like this. I did have feelings for her five years ago, but that was a long time ago. I know now that you're the one I love. I never thought you were a burden..."I didn't want to hear any of it anymore. His voice blurred together as exhaustion pulled me back under.When I became aware of the room
"What?!" Yates's eyes widened in horror.He all but crawled home, barely able to stay on his feet. By the time he stumbled into the backyard, Leo was already lying lifeless beside the pool.Nora was sobbing so hard she could barely get the words out."After Ms. Blake took Leo away, I never saw him again. I was going to take him out to play, so I searched the whole house. Then I came out here and found him..."Yates slowly turned toward Winnie, his eyes bloodshot."It was you?"You really did this?"He suddenly remembered Hannah desperately trying to get to the backyard, insisting that she had to find Leo.It turned out she hadn't been crazy.Winnie denied it immediately."I didn't. Maybe he wandered into the pool on his own. I honestly don't know."Yates didn't waste another word on her. He went straight to pull up the security footage.Winnie started after him, but Claire stopped her."Winnie, I can't trust you anymore either."The moment the footage appeared on the screen, Yates went
Third-Person POVHannah lay deathly pale on the bed, the blood at the corner of her mouth already dried."Hannah!"Yates lunged toward her, his hands shaking uncontrollably."How did this happen...?"He barely had time to process what he was seeing. He had just pulled out his phone to call 911 when Claire walked in."How much longer are you going to keep falling for this?"She's crazy, Yates. She has you running in circles. Have you ever stopped to think about Winnie? She's the one who's been put through hell!"Yates's hand froze over his phone. He looked back at the woman on the bed."She's faking it?""What else would it be?" Claire yanked the covers off Hannah and shoved her hard. "Get up. Can you stop putting on an act?"Haven't you already made Yates and Winnie miserable enough? For once in your life, can't you just be reasonable?"The next second, Yates shoved her away."Why the hell are you saying this to her?!"Then he stepped closer to Claire, his voice dropping into a warning






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