Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

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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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not something I

fervent in my prayers, hoping for the

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mountain's peak before sunrise, and

the last step and hit the

a faint glow, and

him.

heavy, until they focused

back! I knew

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

I was nothing more than a flicker of

and fell back into the snow,

Luke wouldn't stop. He reached out, his hand grasping at

slipped through my ankle as if I wasn't there, I didn't look back. I stepped past him and

ran over. He knelt down, trying to help him

was cold, but it was solid. It

she was fine! She's back! She was

and hunger, had blurred the line between reality and illusion. "Mr. Bolton, let's get you inside, the driver urged.

movements weak but determined. "I have to find Chloe," he

was failing him. Even standing took everything

up! Hurry, or

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

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gaze stayed fixed on the path ahead, as if his entire world was walking away with me. He couldn't see anything else. Lentered the main

knew him. The world called

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

fainted halfway up the mountain, my body too

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

him and planned to send

even then, that it might buy her

had known all along. Maybe he saw the truth-that I was the one who wouldn't

been set. Perhaps there was

voice low as he chanted in a language

knelt in front

deity loomed above me,

sharper than the last.

first time I'd pray

the gods, hoping they could hear me. Please, just one more

The baby inside