The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 308

What Her Faith Created 

HANNAH’S POV: 

The asset question was settled two weeks later. 

Seventy percent to Adele. My mother’s sister. The woman who had held that folder for thirty years and had lost her sister and thought she lost me too until my husband had searched for her and brought us together. 

Thirty percent to me. 

My lawyer said I was entitled to the full amount. Elijah sat beside me and said carefully that he just wanted to make sure I had thought it through. I said I had thought about nothing else for two weeks. I said I have my company and my husband and my children and everything I built with my own hands. Adele spent thirty years as the guardian of everything my mother was owed. She deserves more than I do. 

Elijah looked at me for a long moment. Then he said, “Okay.” And that was the end of the conversation. 

When I told Adele she was quiet for a long time. 

Then she said, “Thank you much Hannah.” A pause. “You are so like her.” 

I pressed my hand over my mouth for a moment. 

“She would have been proud,” I said. 

“Every single ordinary and extraordinary day of all of it,” Adele said. 

Three weeks after the verdict, on a Tuesday morning that started exactly like every other Tuesday morning, I woke up and something was different. 

I lay there for a moment. The bedroom was quiet and Elijah was still asleep. 

My body had a quality to it I recognized in the way you recognize something you have felt before and not recently enough to place immediately. 

I got up very quietly and went to the bathroom and stood at the sink and looked at my reflection for a moment and I thought: oh. 

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