Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

Billionaire Is 82

Chapter 82 Give Me Rebirth

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I never thought someone like me-trapped between life and death, not quite ghost or human-could ser foot in a place so sacred,

I even imagined something dramatic, like getting blastel back by a beam of holy light, just like on TV.

But real life isn't like that.

Barefoot, I stepped onto the stairs.

Snow covered each step, soft and silent under my feet. The hem of my dress shifted with the wind, but the cold never reached me.

Nothing stopped me as I climbed higher. At the top, I knelt, just like Luke had done before me.

I don't know if gods are real. I don't know if they can hear the stubborn hopes and wishes of people like us.

The first two times I prayed, it was for someone else. This time, it was for me.

I lifted my dress slightly and bowed three times, lowering myself fully to the ground with each movement.

By midnight, frost had settled thick on Luke's face.

His hair and lashes were frozen, stiff, and white.

The driver pleaded with him over and over to leave. He warned Luke that if he stayed any longer, he might not survive-or, at best, he'd lose half his strength.

Luke didn't pay attention to the driver's words. He bowed his head and said quietly. "So it really is this cold. How did she manage to get through it?".

The truth is simple. No one can fully understand another person's pain unless they've lived through the same struggles, carried the same weight, and faced the same hardships. But people have different lives and experiences. How many could say they'd done that?

That's why those who speak from a safe distance, urging others to make peace with their suffering, were either foolish or cruel.

Only by feeling someone else's pain could you understand what empathy truly means.

Luke used to dismiss the amulet, thinking it was meaningless. Now, each time he knelt, he realized just how much that thin piece of paper held.

It carried everything inside him-his longing, his regret, and his wildest hopes.

"O wife of mine, stay safe

"O wife of mine, find peace."

O wife of mine, come back to me."

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managed to conquer the mountain's peak before sunrise, and

last step and hit the

Mount Spiritus Abbey cast a faint glow, and snowflakes danced

him.

eyes heavy, until they focused

I knew you'd come

voice cracked, and he pushed himself up with what little strength he had left. Then, with

a flicker of

mine and fell back into the snow, scattering it

then, Luke wouldn't stop. He reached out, his

I didn't look back. I stepped past him and walked. toward the abbey

he ran over. He knelt down, trying

but it was solid. It was real, unlike the emptiness he had tried to hold

my fading silhouette. Did you see her? It's Chloe! I told you she was fine! She's back! She was right there-l almost had her!" The driver stared at him with

and hunger, had blurred

his movements weak but determined. "I have to find

him. Even standing took

me up! Hurry, or she'll be

the driver said, his voice trembling He was frightened by Luke's condition by the raw

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if his entire world was walking away with me. He couldn't see anything else. Lentered the main hall. The hour was late, yet someone sat

The world called him

had given me protective amulets twice before. The arst time, it was for my grandmother. That was in the fall, when the

had fainted halfway up the mountain,

He gave it to me with at serious expression and said I must keep it close. Only then, he said, could

to send it to my grandmother before

it might

known all along. Maybe he saw the truth-that I was the one who

had been set.

sat before me, eyes closed, his voice low as he chanted in

knelt in front of the

deity loomed above me, its figure

than the last. The

time I'd pray for myself would

called out to the gods, hoping they could hear

never done anything to harm the world. The baby inside me and I do not