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Torn Threads

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After a deep and long thought, Hannah had made up her mind. She needed to return home. She had taken the early morning flight back to their city, and the plane touched down just after sunset. Hannah stared out the window as the familiar city lights came into view. Her fingers gripped the armrest, not out of fear, but something heavier—dread.

She had thought long and hard before booking her return flight. For days she’d sat with her return ticket on the nightstand, staring at it like it held the answer to her broken heart. In the end, it all came back to one truth: she owed it to her marriage, to her family, to come home and try.

She wasn’t expecting a fairy tale ending, but she wasn’t ready to shut the door completely either.

At the airport, no one was there to greet her. She had asked Ethan not to come. It would have been too much, too soon. So she called a car and rode back in silence, thinking of what she was going to do and say when she met him. Her eyes scanned the city streets t
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