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 with snow buffeting

step and hit the ground with a

outside Mount Spiritus Abbey cast a faint

him.

his eyes heavy, until they focused

You're back! I knew you'd

with what little strength

a flicker of light-something

back into the snow, scattering it

wouldn't stop. He reached

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

ran over.

was solid. It was real, unlike the emptiness

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

wife, mixed with the cold and hunger, had blurred

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

was failing him. Even

Hurry, or she'll

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

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

The world called him

before. The arst time, it was for my grandmother. That

mountain, my body too frail after

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

planned to send it to my grandmother

might buy her

wonder if the master had known all along. Maybe he saw the truth-that I was the one who

been set. Perhaps

voice low

front of the

above me, its figure vast and

emotions rose inside me, each one sharper than the last. The first two times I came, I had prayed for

first time I'd pray for

the gods, hoping they could hear me. Please,

world. The baby inside me and I do not