Part 44 (1/1)

'It's e thought No, it's e knew A hundred times over I can't explain it; I can't explain you None of us can You shouldn't exist, Hannah, and yet you do' He laughed sheepishly 'We're calling you a miracle'

'I'iven you hope, hasn't it? It's given you all a shred of hope For a future, I mean'

Gabriel was silent for a while Quietly, he said, 'That depends on you'

She didn't knohat to say to that So she squeezed his hand instead

'You haven't told me what you learned from Seb,' he said

Hannah shrugged 'He says my father worked it out From the diaries Don't ask reat-grandfather and great-grandmother? They lived in Sopron, fled to Germany when Jakab tracked the to kill Albert, Jakab supplanted hinant, it was Jakab's baby growing in her belly'

'Which randfather, in fact Do you think he knew?'

'No And I don't think it would have made much difference if he had He was too corrupted by that point Too insane' She shuddered 'Come on I don't want to hear his name any more He's dead Gone Out of our lives forever Where's Leah? Have you seen her?'

From the trees, Hannah heard a rustle of movement

'I'm here'

'Have you been sitting there all along?'

'Mostly'

'Come over here, scamp'

The aroma of toffee and chocolate Of salty skin

'What have you been doing?'

'Starting a diary,' the girl replied 'One of my own'

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