Three Years Later, He Came Back Begging novel Chapter 20

The next time Bonnie heard about Hannah, it was on Lawrence’s birthday in March. Hannah had taken time off from her job in Russia just to come home. She spent the whole day cooking, setting a beautiful table, and kept calling Lawrence again and again, asking when he would come home.

Lawrence’s phone was tossed onto the pillow beside him. He looked tired and a little annoyed, rubbing his forehead as he tried to explain to Bonnie. He told her he’d already made plans to spend his birthday with his girlfriend, not at home.

He didn't know Hannah had decided to come back out of nowhere.

But Hannah hadn’t been home in a long time. She’d come all this way and gone through all this trouble. He couldn’t just say no. Bonnie watched him get dressed and shook her head when he tried to kiss her goodbye. She pulled the blanket over herself and stayed quiet.

That night was Lawrence’s birthday. It was also their first night together.

But instead of happy memories, Bonnie just felt empty.

Later, deep in the night, Lawrence came home with the chill of early spring clinging to him. He wrapped his arms around her and whispered apology after apology, stubbornly refusing to let her go.

People say young couples can make up with just a kiss and a soft promise.

But the fights didn’t stop. In fact, after that, they argued over Hannah again and again.

Once Hannah’s exchange program ended, she was everywhere. She’d show up on their dates, sometimes bringing some friends with her for karaoke. In noisy bars, when Lawrence stepped away, his friends would always find things to tell Bonnie. Stories she’d never heard, memories she didn’t share.

They told her that when Lawrence and Hannah were kids, he’d peeked at her in the bath and got spanked so hard he couldn’t sit. How he’d been so devoted to her, written her a love letter when he first fell in love, and when Hannah rejected him, he threw a childish fit and started dating someone else to make her jealous.

Hannah would just laugh and shrug by her side, never really explaining, only whispering to Bonnie that it was all dumb childhood stuff, way in the past, and now Lawrence only liked Bonnie.

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