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it.”
    “You make him insecure in a lot of areas I’ve never heard him be insecure about before. When you aren’t with him, his mind wanders.” Stacey knew that she shouldn’t be telling her sister-in-law these things, but Hannah needed to know. She needed to know that it wasn’t one-sided—the fear that this could all go away tomorrow. It was very much felt on both sides.
    Garrett’s insecurities were completely stupid, and Hannah knew she was going to have to have a talk with him. There was no reason in this world for him to believe that he needed to be insecure over them. “Okay, I’ll talk to him. I’m gonna let you go,” she told her sister-in-law.
    “Alright, if you need anything else, give me a call!”
    “Love you,” Hannah told her. “Thank you for listening to me.”
    “Love you too. Come visit soon!”
    They hung up, leaving Hannah to stew. She knew exactly what she needed to do and she knew exactly who she needed to contact. It was time to go over Shell’s head. With a sigh, she dialed the number for her lawyer.
    *     *     *
    “What the hell, Hannah?”
    Shell came storming into the house that the two of them shared, waving a paper around, later in the afternoon.
    Hannah had been mentally preparing for this since she’d gone to her lawyer’s office. “Exerting some of the clauses in my contract and my authority.”
    “There was a time when we would have talked about this,” Shell fumed from where she stood.
    “I tried to talk to you about it, but you shot me down. The only duet I’m going to be singing is going to be with my husband. It’s up to the record company now, if they want to ask his record company. If you read the whole thing, you saw that I’m touring for eight weeks and that’s it. I’m taking a year and a half off after that. I deserve it, and it was in my contract to be able to do that.”
    “What about me, Han? What am I going to do for a year and a half? Have you thought about that?” Shell hated to call her out on it, but this felt too selfish to her. Her whole life was tied up in Hannah and her business. Now, because Hannah was married, she was going to forget one of the people who had helped her get there?
    Hannah had given some thought to that. “You’re gonna still be paid. Be a girlfriend to your boyfriend, spend some time with him, and find a hobby. Be normal. We haven’t done that in so long, Shell. I want it so much. I need it so much.”
    The fight went out of Shell and she collapsed on the couch. “This is really what you want?”
    “It is, and I want you to be happy for me. I want you to do all the things that you’ve never been able to because we’ve been on the road. I want you and Jared to have what Garrett and I have.”
    The two of them were quiet for a long time.
    “It scares me, you know?” Shell admitted.
    “What does?”
    “Spending all that time with Jared and not having you to do things for. What if I get on his nerves? What if you decide that you don’t need me anymore? What if you never come back to this, then where is my life and what do I do about all the time I’ve put into it. The love you have for Garrett is amazing and beautiful, but it worries me that you’re going to give everything up for him. I know I’m being selfish, but I can’t help but think of it. I’ve spent most of my adult life making sure you have everything you need and that you’re okay. You don’t need me anymore.”
    “That’s not true at all.” Hannah put her arms around Shell’s neck and hugged her tightly. “I’m going to always need you, but I need him too. Life changes, it evolves. If you give Jared the chance to be your Garrett, he could be.”
    “I know,” she grinned. “Maybe that’s what scares me the most.”
    “It’s time for us to stand on our own. We’ve depended on each other for a long time, and now, we’ve got to do it apart.”
    “I know.” Shell wrinkled her nose.
    “When Garrett and I find a house here,