Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 701:

Then, a voice shattered the silence.

“Rachel?” The voice was urgent, relieved, and instantly recognizable.

It was Brian.

Even after more than a month apart, his voice was etched in her mind. Rachel knew his voice the second she heard it.

She froze, then jumped up, ready to run without thinking twice. “Carol, I promise I’ll be back,” she whispered before turning to leave in a hurry.

But Brian was fast, right behind her.

Within seconds, he grabbed her wrist, blocking her path.

still dressed in black.

might disappear if he did. Fear gripped him—fear that she wasn’t real, that this was just

completely still, forgetting she had planned

again and again. After what felt like forever, he finally spoke, his voice shaking. “Rachel, it’s you… it’s really

wasn’t a dream. It was real. Rachel was alive. She was here,

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her into his arms, his emotions overwhelming him. “Grandma was buried today. You loved her so much, and I thought… if you were still alive, you’d come. So I stayed. I waited, just in case. Maybe it was fate, Rachel… I

now, Brian was

it. She shoved him away, her voice sharp. “Let me

her, and she figured she’d have to struggle or even call Yvonne for help. After all,

hard push. Without wasting a second, she turned and ran. She

just in time to see Brian collapse, falling straight into a

steeled herself, resolved to press