The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 280

HANNAH’S POV: 

I called Jacob an hour later when I was composed enough to manage a conversation. 

“You did not tell me,” I said. 

“Cherry wanted to tell you properly,” he said. “She was very specific about the order of things.” 

“It is the most beautiful thing you have ever done,” I said. 

“Cherry thought of it,” he said immediately. “I want to be clear about that. She came to me about four months ago and said she had been thinking about the baby’s name and she had an idea and she wanted to know what I thought, And she told me. And I said yes before she finished the sentence.” 

“Jacob,” I said. 

“She deserves the credit,” he said. “It was Cherry’s idea. I just got to be the person who said yes.” 

I thought about Cherry. About the woman who had shown up in my life through Jacob and had been so quietly and specifically kind in a way that did not announce itself and did not ask for recognition. Who had been there through difficult things and had not made a production of being there. Who had, four months ago come and thinking about 

names, arrived at this one. 

“Tell her,” I said, “that I love her.” 

“Good,” she said. “I wanted to make sure.” She looked out the car window for a moment. “In twenty years I have not seen a case with a document like that letter. The clarity of it. The absence of bitterness. Most people who have been wronged cannot write about it without the anger showing through and understandably so. But she wrote it like she was leaving a record for a library. Like she understood her job in that moment was just to be accurate and let the facts do the work.” Castellan looked at me. “She was remarkable.” 

I looked out the window. 

“Yes,” I said. “She was.” 

I looked out the car window at the city going past and I thought about my mother at twenty-two, keeping everything. 

Still here, I thought. Still here.