CHAPTER 53Sam found himself getting drowsy, reading the last page of the colorful children’s book he held on his lap, while sitting on the edge of his mother’s bed. He had tucked Hannah in more than fifteen minutes earlier. Finishing, he closed the back cover softly, preparing to make a quiet exit. Her eyes were closed, and her lips were turned up in a relaxed smile. It still amazed him that this was his daughter and that he could feel so deeply about someone he’d met less than two weeks earlier. When he had crossed over from his own realm and had met the version of Mara and Diana who lived here, he had mixed feelings to sort out. He had to separate his past relationships with them from his hopes of what they might be here. With Hannah, he was smitten from the moment they met, or at least
