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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Luke managed to conquer the mountain's peak before sunrise, and with snow buffeting

on the last step and hit the ground with

cast a faint

him.

heavy, until

back! I

strength he had left. Then, with all his might, he lunged toward

I was nothing more than a flicker of light-something he could see

through mine and fell back into the snow, scattering

wouldn't stop. He reached out, his hand

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

he ran over. He knelt

solid. It was real, unlike

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 a mix

must have seemed out of his mind. His desperation for his wife, mixed with the cold and hunger, had

him away, his movements weak but determined. "I have to find

was failing him. Even

me up! Hurry, or she'll be

his voice trembling He was frightened by Luke's condition by the

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Luke wasn't listening. His gaze stayed fixed on the path ahead, as if his entire world was walking away

The world called him

it was for my grandmother. That was in the fall,

the mountain, my body too frail

I woke, I was in a quiet room. The master was there, holding an amulet. He gave it to me with at serious expression and

thanked him and planned to send it to my

even then, that it might buy her

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

set. Perhaps there was no

me, eyes closed, his voice low

knelt in front of the

deity loomed above me, its figure vast

each one sharper than the last. The

I'd pray for myself would

out to the gods, hoping they could hear me.

The baby inside me and I