He was perfectly healthy.
Adrian dropped the phone in shock.
“I’m not dying.”
Hannah burst into tears.
Adrian laughed, cried, and held her tightly.
“I get to stay. I get to watch Sophie grow up.”
He began leaving the criminal world behind and turning his businesses legitimate.
Life slowly filled the mansion with laughter.
One morning Hannah discovered she was pregnant.
“We’re having a baby,” she told him.
Adrian cried again.
A year later they sat together in the garden.
Sophie—now officially Sophie Cole after adoption—ran across the grass holding flowers.
Hannah, pregnant again, leaned against Adrian’s shoulder.
“I still can’t believe this life,” she whispered.
Adrian smiled.
“I thought I was going to die. Then you and Sophie saved me.”
Sophie climbed onto his lap.
“Papa. Mama. Love.”
Adrian wrapped his arms around both of them.
For the first time in his life, he wasn’t a ghost feared by the city.
He was simply a husband.
A father.
And a man who had finally found happiness.
