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"Promise me you'll call me when you guys make it back home." I give Tessa one more hug before saying goodbye.
"Hey bro." Hardin pulls me away from Tessa. "Get your own woman. This ones mine."
He smiles.
I laugh. "Thanks for coming for the weekend bro"
Hardin kneels in front of Theodore and Phoebe.
"So you don't hate my daddy anymore?" Theodore whispers to Hardin.
Hardin looks up at me and then back down at Theodore.
"He's okay." Hardin whispers back, winking at Theodore.
"It was nice to meet you little lady." Hardin says to Phoebe, who hides behind Anastasia leg.
He stands back up.
"It was nice to meet you two. Please keep in touch." Anastasia hugs Tessa.
"I'll have to come over and you can show me some more of your work." Tessa smiles to Anastasia.
"Yes! That would be amazing. Especially when Christian goes out of town for work, it gets so lonely here with the kids." Anastasia smiles clapping her hands in excitement.
"We must be going. Goodbye." Hardin smile before getting into the car.
Tessa gets into the passenger seat and shuts the door.
The car pulls out of the long gravel driveway. We wave once more before heading back inside.
It's like there's a weight lifted off my chest and for the first time, I'm pulled out of the darkness that I lived in for thirteen years.
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Hardin's POV
I stare out the window at the road ahead of me.
The drive back to our apartment seems to go by quicker than when we drove to the lake house.
Tessa looks out the window, her hair blowing in the wind.
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She turns her head and looks at me, a smile growing across her face. I catch her staring at me out of the corner of my eye and look at her,
"What?" I smile.
"Nothing." She laughs and turns to face the window again.
"Why are you being so weird?" I laugh.
"You just seem happier since we left that's all." She smiles.
I raise my eyebrow, "Happier? Happier how?" What is she taking about?
"I don't know, just happier. After you talked to your brother about everything — you just seem happier that's all." She looks at me and takes my hand.
"No I'm not. I still can't stand him." I laugh.
"Shush you know you're happy to have your brother back in your life."
"Maybe a little. I don't know." Am I happy?
"Well Anastasia invited us out to dinner next Saturday." Tessa says.
I throw my head back.
"Tessa." I whine.
"Hardin." She mocks me.
"You just love to torture me don't you?"
"Yes I do. Come on Hardin it'll be good. You guys can hangout and Anastasia and I can hangout too." She smiles.
I groan.
"You know I only do this stuff because I love you right."
"And that's why I love you." She says giving a victory smile and returning to the window.
