Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

Chapter 516 New Year

Zoey shot Harlan an annoyed look. “What are you doing here?”

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He looked a little travel–worn as if he had just rushed over from somewhere far away. But at least he seemed better than the last time I saw him, when he was stuck in a cast.

I let out a small sigh of relief. After all, he had gotten hurt because of us.

If he had died in that accident, I would never have forgiven myself.

I had no idea how things were progressing between him and Zocy, but one thing was certain–he still had feelings for her.

You could always tell when a man was truly in love.

Just like now–his eyes, his entire world, were only filled with Zocy.

In his hand wasn’t his usual briefcase, but a food container. “Didn’t you say you love my staff’s cooking? I asked him to make something for you before I came. I kept it warm on the way–it should still be hot. Try it.”

Zoey’s retort caught in her throat. “Huh? Oh. Fine.”

Then, Harlan turned to Carter. “I heard Chloe made it back alive. Where is she? I even brought something

she likes.”

He really had to pick that topic, didn’t he?

Zoey shot him a warning glance, but Harlan just frowned. “What’s wrong with your eye? Got dust in it? Want me to blow it out?”

Without another word, she grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the room.

I turned to Carter. “He didn’t mean anything by it. Don’t let it bother you.”

“I’m fine.”

But he wasn’t fine. The weight of everything still lingered in his gaze, heavy and unresolved. I knew what was tormenting him–me, but I had no way to fix it.

I wanted to return to my body, but something invisible, something I couldn’t understand, kept me from getting close.

know why. Carter grew quieter and

beating. By all medical accounts, I was alive. But I wouldn’t wake up. The doctors

tried everything to bring me back, but nothing

our children’s reactions to know that I was still

time passed, the babies‘ vision improved. At first, they could only see me within a

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the others, they never saw me as something otherworldly. Wherever I moved, their tiny eyes followed, reacting to me just like any baby would react to their mother.

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chuckle. “Look at them. It’s like an invisible fairy

masters.”

no

that what the babies saw–what they

it a lot. If I could stay with them like this forever, maybe it wouldn’t be

worried … What would happen when they grew older?

to others that they had a mother

blink of an eye. The twins were now

again, and with

of me every single day. The nurses whispered about how they had never seen a man

along. “I know,

Carter everywhere. Most of the time, I never left his

the babies back to the

prepared a gift for the

listened to Carter introduce their names, nodding repeatedly.

and Everly …

staggered as he left

next day… My

had attended funerals when I was alive. And now, as a spirit, I was attending

A once–in–a–lifetime experience.

to visit my grave.

wrapped basket of hydrangeas, covered in frost. Luke limped away

were my favorite. But wasn’t it a little too late?

at my own gravestone. The photo etched into it would always show me at 28.

over my own face. It

was her and at the same

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live,” Carter murmured.