Hannah's POV

When the police arrested Paul and Louis, exhaustion finally caught up to me. The ambulance had also arrived, placing Paul on the stretcher. Even after everything Paul had done to me, I insisted that I be let into the same ambulance to reduce his blood flow. Daniel refused multiple times but after I hopped into the ambulance, he joined me and sat down beside me. I immediately got to work to make the blood stop pouring out.

Daniel sat beside me feeling confused. The other paramedic and I fought against time to stop the blood flow. With the equipment in the ambulance, we could only give him first aid and pain medication. Daniel noticed that I had hurt myself and alerted me immediately. I disinfected the wound and bandaged it up. Once the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the driver and the paramedic immediately brought him in shouting a quick thank you to me.

The police car had been traveling behind us and rushed in with the medics to make sure that Paul would not escape. Brother drove Daniel's car behind the police. He picked us up and began driving home. We were in silence for a while before I voiced out my question. " How did you manage to find me?" I asked, looking at Daniel who was sitting beside me. " I, um, installed as GPS and voice recorder in your bracelet. I did kind of expect that you would be kidnapped, but I did not expect it to be so fast." Daniel replied, his head hung low.

I slowly slipped my hand into his and held it close to me. " It is fine, Daniel. I know that you did it for my safety. Are you ok?" I asked him, convincing myself that he had not been in any turmoil with my disappearance. " Am I ok? Hannah, I should be asking you that question. Are you ok? Did they do anything else to you?" He inquired, looking back up at me. I shook my head, placing my head on his shoulder.

" Get some rest. I'll wake you up when we reach home," Daniel assured me, slightly petting my head. I nodded and let the exhaustion take over me. What I opened my eyes again, I realized that I was back in Daniel's room, snuggled close to him. " As much as I would like that to be a dream, please tell me it was not." I pleaded, stretching my arms. " The both of them have been arrested, Hannah. All we have to do is file a lawsuit against both of them and then attend a few court sessions so that they can be jailed." Daniel replied, resting his head on his hand.

" Hmmm, that means that life would go back to normal. You would go back to work, having no worry for me of any sort and I will go back to work. This period of my life has been great. I no longer have to fear that I will be abused in any way anymore..." I looked up at the ceiling as I pondered how I would go back to my apartment. " Hannah, I'm not kidding when I say I want you here with me. I'm sorry for my behavior during our first 10 months." He spoke while moving closer to me.

" If I asked you why you treated me horrible and why you let me move out, would you give me a reason?" I questioned, looking at him. His silence was enough of an answer for me. " I will move out as soon as possible, Daniel. You can continue living your regular life." I continued as I sat up. " Wait, wait. I'll tell you why." Daniel gripped onto my wrist to stop me from moving. I halted my movements and looked back at Daniel. He too sat up before he opened his mouth.

" Just before I married you, I was in a relationship with another woman. We were doing fine until she started to become distant. I knew the signs too well. I soon found out that she was cheating on me. Even after confronting her, she refused to tell me the truth. It was such a messy breakup. She started to scream at me and refused to leave. It took me a while to get her off my back. And then was when my mom set up our alliance. I wasn't fond of women at that time. I shooed away every woman that approached me, excluding my mom of course, but you get the idea." He paused, to look up at me.

" When I first saw you, you looked so cowardly. And based on how I saw your mother acting, I thought you would be stuck up and bratty too. I got married to you so that my mom would stop bringing up marriage every time she would meet me. I guess that idea just got stuck in my brain. You would go to work early and come back late. I thought you were having affairs outside. Only after having Matt as your driver and him reporting back to me did I realize that I had been thinking very horribly of you." Daniel's hold onto my hands was very warm and soft.

" I thought if I followed you for a day, I would be able to get you out of my system. I finally managed to bring myself to follow you one day. I saw how helpful and so cheerful you were. You helped people cross the streets, you bought children food with the amount of cash you had, you kept giving back to society and it made me want to reach out to you. It made me want to be a better husband to you." Daniel licked his dry lips.

" That night at the bar was entirely my mistake. I shouldn't have pounced onto you like that nor should I have hurt you like that. Hannah, I'm sorry for all the horrible things I've said and done to you. You deserve so much more and I want to be the one who would give you that. Would you give me another chance so that I can prove myself?" Daniel asked, his hold on my hands tightening for a while.

I kept quiet, just to rile him up a little. Just as his face started to drop, I smiled back up at him. " Daniel, I have already forgiven you. Of course, I will give you another chance. You have to work hard though, I will not forgive you this easily next time," I replied, huffing a little. " I'll make sure there isn't a next time," Daniel assured me as he pulled me back into his arms.

And did that feel like heaven.

Paul has finally been jailed. Everything he had said in the car with me was placed as evidence and played out loud to everyone, including Father and Mother, to prove that Paul is a manipulator and an abuser. The police had to take pictures of my body for evidence that I had been tortured by that monster. Even though the evidence part was terrifying, Daniel walked through everything with me.

Another doctor had examined me made sure that all my scars healed properly and that there weren't any problems with my reproductive system because of the constant abuse. Despite hearing what Paul had done, Mother still refused to acknowledge me. Which I have grown to accept. I did not need her or Father to be my family. I have Daniel, Joseph, Matt, Lance, Sean, Brother, and my in-laws.

I was forever grateful to Sean for protecting me while Matt was hospitalized that I had thrown my shame away and hugged him. He was stunned but still petted my head after I had let go. I wanted to repay him somehow and Sean agreed to me planning their wedding anniversary. I did my best, with help from both Daniel and Joseph, and planned their anniversary. Lance was elated that he texted me while celebrating his anniversary.

Brother stepped out of Mother's and Father's grasp, pulling them off his business and personal affairs. He was living with us in the meantime while building his own home. He paid off his debt and continued to spend quality time with me, which I really enjoyed. We even found a hobby that we can do together. Eating of course! We would go on lunch dates(sometimes with Daniel, sometimes without him) and talk about many things. Sometimes about the irritating people at work, sometimes about the people passing by.

It was fun to make memories with him, having never made such memories with anyone else. After lunch dates with Brother, Daniel would whisk me away for a date with him. I would laugh every time they competed with each other asking me whose date was better planned or whose date was better executed. Honestly, I couldn't pick, sometimes Daniel's were better, sometimes Brother's were better.

Their fights together were just so cute that I would be laughing my heart out and they would end up laughing as well. When Brother said that he would be moving out soon, it had been hard. It felt like we just bonding and now he suddenly wanted to leave. He spent the rest of his time at Daniel's mansion reassuring me that we would still be bonded and have as many lunch dates as I wanted. I nodded back at him but I knew that I was pulling him away from work.

" Hannah? Are you still with me?" Daniel sounded to my ears. " Huh, yes?" I blinked at him, only for him to laugh at me. " I was asking if you wanted to go anywhere," He asked, again, slightly holding my hand. " Go anywhere as in? Like to the amusement park nearby?" I question back, wondering why he was asking me this. " I mean we can go to the amusement park if you want to, but maybe in another country, like Hong Kong?" His question did startle me a little.

" You mean, overseas?" My heart was pacing by the time I got the question out. He nodded and we settled into silence. Would it be like a honeymoon, for us? The question rang loudly in my mind. " Hannah, don't get mad ok? I was just thinking we could go on a honeymoon, you know? Take your mind off things and we can relax and enjoy the scenery. If...if you don't want to, we won't," Daniel paused peering at me for any reaction. A smile threatened to peek out, because of his cute face. His brows scrunched up a little and his bottom lip out as if him pouting would change my answer.

" Of course we can, Daniel. There is no better time than now," I replied as I laughed out loud a little. His face immediately brightened up as jumped off his seat and plopped beside me. He grasped my face and pulled it close to his to give me a heart-stopping kiss. When he let me go, I laughed out loud at his cute reaction. " Thank you, thank you thank you!!! I've got to start planning. Stay here ok, I'll be right back." Daniel grasped my face, pecked me again, and left the living room.

After I calmed down from laughing, I thought for a while. I did not really forget what Mother and Father did to me but in a way, I forgave them. They were manipulated in so many ways and had suffered too. They built me up to be who I am, and it would be one thing that I am ok with. They did not reach out to me, but according to Brother, they had tried to convince him to return to them.

Brother said that it would take him some time to forgive them for treating me like they did. He also often asked if I had forgiven him, feeling guilty every time we spent time together. I reassured him time and time again that it was not his fault. He had just acted the way he did because of the influence of Mother and Father. And the fault would be on Paul.

Daniel's excited voice pulled me out of my thoughts as he phoned many people and booked so many things. I smiled as I thought about him. He had been nothing but a good husband I could ask for. We always snuggled back into bed, against each other. He always considered my feelings regarding every matter. He often asked if I was ok and he fed me well. He always made me smile with his antics, making so many jokes and making me laugh until my stomach hurt.

He dropped me off at the hospital and picked me up every day, with a smile. He always made me share what I felt, no matter what I felt when I felt it. He also shared his feelings with me, if he had lost a deal at work, he would crawl up and lay his head on my lap and talk about how he could have done better. And I would just run my finger through his hair listening to him. When he finished ranting, I would say, so what if you lost this deal, you can always one that would be better than this. And he would look up at me and smile up with such a beautiful smile. He would nod and pull himself to sleep on my lap.

" And we are set, we would be flying off tomorrow in the morning. Come come, let's pack our bagssssss!" He dragged his word as he ran down the stairs.

Would this be an ending or a beginning?