Chapter 231 The End

***Hazel***

***Three Months Later***

The house felt different now.

Not just a structure of wood and stone but lived in. Loved. Home.

For so long, houses had been nothing more than places I stayed, apartments, rental rooms, temporary spaces that never truly belonged to me. But this one? This one belonged to us.

Every picture hanging on the walls told a story. Every blanket folded over the couch whi