Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 536

A full day and night...

Lindey must've come straight here after I left the Johnston residence.

When I saw her kneeling there, hunched over, it felt like my heart was caught in a vice.

Abbot Levinsky moved toward her, but I just stood there, frozen.

After what felt like forever, I finally made myself move knelt down beside her and whispered, "Lindey."

She flinched, then slowly looked up at me, disbelief flickering across her face. Her lips trembled, but she didn't say anything-just let the tears fall,

I looked at her tear-streaked cheeks and the gray creeping into her hair, and I couldn't believe how much she seemed to have aged overnight. "Rea..." Her voice was shaky as she said my name, then pulled me into a tight hug.

Her embrace had once been my safest place, the warmest in my world. But now? I couldn't bring myself to lift my arms and hold her back.

begging for

couldn't bring my parents back. I knew that no amount of anger or hurt would change. the fact that they were gone. Holding onto this hate

Lena's words and Abbot Levinsky's stories Suddenly, it hit me: clinging

them back. What was the point of it? It only fed my own pain. "You're not going to find peace here," I said, my voice

parents' deaths, they'd felt

could finally find peace too. "What's done is done. Matthew... I'm done

to people who do wrong. So why was I

time to let fate

me help you up," I said, reaching out

she'd been down so long,

and nodding gently. "Mrs. Johnston, it's time

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tightly. "Ren, will I