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Chapter 70

Author: Anney GW
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NICO

She’s back.

That’s what I tell myself every morning when I wake and see her lying beside me. Hannah, in our bed, wearing the ring that never should have left her hand. The house feels alive again, the way it used to. The staff greet her as “Mrs. Mancini” without hesitation. Even Veronica, though her eyes sharpen like knives, has stopped pretending she doesn’t notice.

It should feel perfect.

It almost does.

And yet—

The cracks.

She doesn’t touch me the way she used to.

At dinner, I reached for her hand across the table. She let me take it, but not without hesitation. A pause — a heartbeat too long — before her fingers settled against mine. I kissed her temple as she passed me in the hallway. Her shoulders went rigid before she forced herself to soften.

Little things. Barely worth noting.

Except I notice everything.

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Last night was worse.

I slid into bed beside her after the lights were out. The house was quiet, the way it always is when it’s just
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