Chapter 698 More People
He walked to the door, closed his long fingers around the handle, and pulled it open.
Hannah’s gaze
followed the motion, curiosity pulling her eyes toward whoever was outside
She expected someone inconsequential.
But when the door swung fully open, the blood drained from her face and her pupils contracted to points.
It was Ethan.
An
im, holding his
was Isla.
wn, her fram
at had alwa
d leaner than Hannah remembered, and the dark, bristlin er eyes had softened into something approaching
od next to
her gaze
hesitat
nnah
seful Wha
er
oked around the private room with open curiosity.
nnah, a mix of emotions flashe
t, then summoned her nerve
of them, her lips parting and econds. “Isla,” she finally man ere?”
and forth between Isla an
as entirely neutral.
ment left both I
ved slightl
face.
quietly, “Mom.”
ut producing anything word came out strained.
rely concealed panic.
you. Is that a problem?”
taken aback.
was no longer any room to maneuver.
to his life, she had constructed her personal elf into someone innocent and sympathetic and she’d had one brief, unhappy marriage, that her and that she had suffered considerably because of it.
mpassion, held her hand, and promised her that she would
ife.
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She had anticipated many things. She had not anticipated Ethan walking Isla directly through
that door.
There was no way she could deny the child now.
In the span of a heartbeat, Hannah buried every trace of her panic.
Her eyes went red at the rims.
“Dad,” she said, her voice catching in her throat, “this is my daughter. Isla.” She didn’t finish the sentence before she crossed the room quickly and pulled Isla into a tight embrace. “Baby, why didn’t you tell me you were coming? I missed you so much.”
Lenny’s eyebrows rose dramatically, and the shock on his face looked very much like a man who had been genuinely blindsided by the sudden appearance of a granddaughter. But if anyone had been watching the particular quality of the light behind his lowered lashes, they might have noticed something else there entirely.
On the other side of the table, the remaining guests had collectively shifted into riveted spectator mode.
Lily’s jaw had all but come unhinged. She had expected a dinner. She had not expected a live production of this caliber.
She reached under the table and jabbed Amelia in the arm, dropping her voice to an urgent murmur. “Did you see that? Ethan just showed up with the daughter Hannah abandoned. Right in front of Lenny. This is incredible.”
Amelia’s own thoughts were moving fast and tangled.
“I honestly had no idea he was coming,” she murmured back.
Her gaze drifted sideways to Mason without her fully deciding to look.
Since the moment Ethan had appeared, Mason had maintained the same composed, unhurried expression he always wore. But he had personally gotten up to open that door, which told her everything she needed to know about how surprised he actually was.
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