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"Please, Logan, just listen to her. I’m sure…" Another coughing fit shook her small frame, and Logan tightened his hold on her until it passed. Then he grasped her chin to tilt it up and brushed his lips over hers. Fuck the audience, he needed that connection right now, to feel her tentative smile at his actions, and to know she was with him. He’d doubted that at times over the last few weeks.

Oh, in bed, at least, she was just as responsive as she’d always been, but when she didn’t think he was looking he’d noticed the inherent sadness that clung to Hannah like an invisible cloak of impending doom. It made him uneasy. Logan wasn’t one to second-guess his actions, but he found himself doing that more and more. It wasn’t a feeling he relished, because the world just didn’t seem right when Hannah wasn’t happy. Fuck knew why that bothered him as much as it did, but he needed her to be happy.