Lahat ng Kabanata ng Five Years a Widow, Then the Truth: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 8

Hannah's POVI pointed to the tube attached to my nose and yelled, "Why would you do this to me? I broke my leg searching for the truth about their deaths! They even poured bleach down my esophagus! I've had to eat through this feeding tube ever since! "You watched me spend five years living like a wreck! How could you not feel sorry for me?"I looked at Mom as tears streamed down my face, searching for some kind of answer in her expression.Mom turned away, though her voice remained cold and unyielding. "What could I have done? You're both my daughters. Chris and Queenie got down on their knees and begged me to let them be together. That's how I found out that they're still alive! "Queenie has never been in good health. She couldn't possibly handle the distress, so I had to hide the truth from you!"She turned around, grabbed my hand, and said softly, "I know you're upset, but it's all in the past now. They're having a hard time raising their daughter in Havenport, too. "Y

Chris and I tumbled to the ground after he yanked me away from the guardrail. He grabbed my shoulders with bloodshot eyes and snapped, "Have you lost your mind, Hannah? What will happen to your parents if you jump now? What about Queenie? They'll never live down the shame and backlash!"I was stunned. It turned out that Chris had saved me just so Queenie wouldn't get dragged through the dirt.Chris panicked when I burst into tears. "Why are you suddenly crying?"He reached out to me, then withdrew his hand halfway. "Queenie and I talked it over. She has agreed to let you become Jennie's godmother. That should be enough, right, Hannah?"Chris' condescending, almost charitable tone made me burst out laughing.I grabbed his wrist and demanded, "When did you get involved with Queenie?"Chris instinctively looked away, unable to meet my eyes. "Please just drop it, Hannah…"I stared intently at him and snapped, "You'd better tell me this instant! I deserve to know what actually happ

In that instant, everyone in the hall fell silent.Tabitha was the first to snap out of it. "Who the hell are you? Get out of here! You're at a wedding, for crying out loud! How can you bring up something like that here? "Get them out of here, Benjamin!"Benjamin Stewart, Hannah's father, marched over and waved them off impatiently. "Get out of here! What kind of scam are you pulling here? You're actually pretending to be police officers, huh? You'd better leave this instant! Otherwise, I'll call the actual police!"Hearing that, the lead police officer furrowed his brow and pulled out his police ID. "If you don't believe me, you can take a look at my ID. I'm being completely serious here. "I'll ask again—who here is Hannah Stewart's next of kin?"Benjamin didn't even bother looking at the ID. He snatched it from the lead officer's hand and tossed it aside, yelling, "You're nothing but a damn fraud! Get the hell out of here! Can't you see that we're holding a wedding for ou

Tabitha ignored everything else and opened Twitter. She noticed that the post Hannah had written had climbed to the top of the local trending topics. Hannah had laid out everything that happened to her in the past five years—how Chris and Queenie had deceived her into believing they were dead, while they had actually been secretly building a life together. She had even described how Tabitha, Benjamin, and the other relatives had known the truth and kept it from her."You were the only person who was ever really on my side for the first 29 years of my life, Chris. You, however, were the one who killed our unborn child with your own hands. I'll never forgive you, Chris."You took my husband and took a lifetime of our parents' love, Queenie. Do you really think you've won? What you've won was only my scraps, Queenie! "You won't be able to have a good night's sleep from now on, since I'll always appear in your dreams to remind you that I died because of you!"I'll never call you M