#Chapter 159: The Fall

Hannah “Noah!” As Jake and I plummeted toward the churning water below, time seemed to slow to a standstill. The roar of the waterfall faded into the background, and all I could hear was the pounding of my own heart in my chest. My hand instinctively went to my stomach, where my unborn child had only just taken root a couple of months ago, and for a moment, I was back on the floor of my steamy bathroom all over again. This couldn’t be happening, I kept telling myself. My child and I were given a second chance at life, only for it to be snuffed out so soon by a man whose only motivation was money. As we fell, I thought of all the things I would never get to experience—holding my baby for the first time, watching them grow, seeing their first steps… being a mother, finally, after all these years of trying. Tears stung my eyes as I reached desperately toward the cliff’s edge, knowing it was futile. Nothing would catch us except for the jagged rocks b