The Broken Bonds

to come find me in three days. On the third day, I positioned a lounge chair near

sage I sent

y you forever lose

, but honestly, it no longer matters to me. All I could think of was

one might expect from a haunting. Instead, I found m

Gavin standing there. He looked pale, his clothes disheveled, and h

Lily, why are you sleeping outside? You shouldn't be this reckless when you're not feeling well. You

. Let's go ins

show the slightest sign of life. Gavin, refus

s were bloodshot, tears streaming down his face. He held my hand

sight of him, but I cou

don't speak to me,

or your forgiveness." He gently lifted my col

mained still, frozen in that same position. Unaware

through the night, his face unreadable. The next morni

elings. I shouldn't have hurt the child! Please, wake up and look

something I had never witnessed before. Even when we lost t

could ever face-losing the woman he loved, a

er of us

sitting beside me day and night. It was

You need to bury her properly,

breaking. "She's just sleeping... She's mad a

d unable to accept what had happened. His assistant left,

d them as they took me away, and watched as they used Gavin's

ing from a bad dream. He stood at my memoria

hair now had streaks of white. He fell ill, and I saw him d

ppreciate the g

or me to move on, to

His hand reached through my ghostly form as he whi

as no r

lease."

to his sorrow. It was ti