Chapter 20 - Hannah’s House
The government completed a threat reassessment.
Sloane detained pending proceedings.
Price cooperating.
Corporate surveillance network exposed.
Immediate risk reduced.
Not zero.
Laura gave me options.
Relocation again.
Remain under modified protection.
Or eventually transition toward a less restrictive arrangement if courts approved and I accepted risk.
“What do you want?” she asked.
Nobody had asked me that five years earlier because immediate survival dominated.
Now:
“Cedar Falls.”
She nodded.
“Under which name?”
I stared.
“Hannah.”
Laura looked surprised.
“You want to keep it?”
“Yes.”
“What about Evelyn?”
I thought.
“She’s mine too.”
Legal arrangements would be complicated.
Protected identities are not costumes you switch publicly without process.
Lawyers handled it.
Eventually, I could live publicly as Hannah Reed while acknowledging under protected legal procedures that Evelyn Hart had been my former identity.
I did not need to resurrect every old label.
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Hannah was not fake.
She was the woman I became when survival stopped being a uniform.
