I Found Home

Chapter 33

Kane

Guilt : Punishing yourself before God doesn't .

Or before Hannah does .

Take your pick .

She is sitting in the passenger seat , all gorgeous and gleaming and mine while I'm drowning in suffocating thoughts with my conscious mind , my feelings and my fears . The laters are the winning side currently . I'm so afraid of loosing the warmth of my little fire that I can't get myself to admit such a trivial matter . If I didn't know how Hannah could be an easy prey to her own anger , I would've spilled everything comfortably , but no . My girl is full of red hot flames , ready to burn anything in her way , she is ready to burn whoever and whatever dare to even scratch her .

Hannah isn't a bad girl , she has just seen a lot of bad people to the point it became hard for her to discern between them and she eventually gave up deciding to consider everyone bad . It's hard to blame her when her own father considered her entire existence an investment for another child's benefit .

Only lately she's been glowing and blooming in her life , instead of looking like an old lady with all the world's problems on her shoulders , she is more like a girl living her latest teenage years to the fullest . I'm glad for her , I'm happy to see the ease in her features , the lack of frowns and glares and the disappearance of that hint of sadness giving her big brown eyes a dim color , now it's fully sparkling and otherworldly breathtaking .

« Well hello , Britney ! The hell have you been ? » She is probably speaking to Paget , who finally picked up her phone after many attempts on Hannah's behalf to reach her .

« Yeah as we agreed , if mom ... » Hannah's eyebrows draw together . « Is there someone with you ? » She asks incredulously then listens to her friend talking on the other line before she pulls the phone away from her ear and stares at it incredulously .

« What's the matter ? » I ask as I round the corner leading to my neighborhood .

The surprise I have prepared for her is here in my house .

I'm not sure how will she take it but I hope she likes it .

Hannah looks at me shaking her head . « Just Paget being ... Paget , I guess . » Hs tucks her phone away in her bag .

Once I park outside the house I kill the engine and stop her from opening her door with my hand on her thigh . She looks at me with a blush and a frown , both of them equally enjoyable sights I never tire of .

« Today is your day as I said . Just relax and let me do everything for you , okay ? »

She chuckles and shakes her head drawing a smile from me .

I open her door and sign for her to step out like a respectful gentleman before shutting the car and offering her my arm . She takes it with a grin on her face .

« I might get used to this . » She says in a threatening whisper , her eyes staring at my side profile .

« Me too . »

Without further words I turn the key on my door lock , just as Hannah was about to walk in I step in her way which makes her look up at me with those big hypnotizing brown eyes of hers .

« Close your eyes . »

Her brows furrow but she complies . I smile as she does then take her hands in mine and pull her inside carefully.

Ethan helped me set it all for her . Not without hearing few comments from here and jokes from there , I was okay as long as his words were directed at me and he knew better than to give any sort of remark concerning Hannah .