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Chapter 25

Author: EstherJames62327
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FOUR YEARS AGO

The house was usually alive with something, shoes flung near the stairs, Meredith’s crayons staining the table, Hannah humming off-key in the kitchen as she made another disaster. But not tonight.

As Richard Abbott stepped into the mudroom and toed off his brogues, silence greeted him like a stranger.

Too clean. Too still.

The cleaning lady must have come by. But even that didn’t explain the unsettling hush. He loosened his tie, slipping his suit jacket over the hook by the doorway, and moved through the empty hallway, the faint scent of lavender still lingering in the air.

“Darling? Meredith?” he called out, voice echoing faintly.

He passed the kitchen-spotless. The den-quiet. The garden-empty.

His steps quickened.

Upstairs, their bedroom door was slightly ajar. He pushed it open gently.

There she was.

Hannah lay on her back, one arm curled around a softly breathing Meredith, her other hand resting on the swell of her stomach. Her face, even in sleep, was peaceful. And
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