All Chapters of Chain My Heart Too, Gamma: Chapter 91 - Chapter 96

KaelI jolt awake with my heart hammering so hard it feels like it punches straight through my ribs. My hand shoots out instinctively, searching the other side of the bed before my mind catches up with my body. The sheets are cold. Empty. Of course they are.Sunlight is already forcing its way through the curtains, too bright, too honest for the kind of night I just had. I drag a hand down my face and sit up slowly, my head heavy, my eyes burning like I barely slept at all. Because I didn’t. Not really.The dream lingers, not clear enough to hold onto, but sharp enough to hurt. I remember her voice. I remember turning toward it. I remember reaching. And then nothing.I swing my legs off the bed and sit there for a moment, elbows on my knees, staring at the wooden floor. The house is quiet except for the low hum of the refrigerator downstairs and a bird tapping somewhere outside. Morning has already begun whether I’m ready for it or not.“Get up,” I mutter to myself, pushing to my feet

LalaHe is staring at me like I might disappear again, like if he even blinks too hard I will dissolve into thin air, and for a second I almost laugh because this is the same stubborn man who used to argue with me over the smallest things, yet right now he looks completely undone, soaked from head to toe, hair dripping onto his shoulders, eyes wide and uncertain.“Say something,” he whispers, his voice rough, like it hurts him to speak.“I already did,” I reply, trying to steady my breathing because my own heart is racing just as fast as his. “I told you to stop acting like a fool.”He swallows, still staring at my hand wrapped around his wrist. I can feel the tension in him, the disbelief fighting with the part of him that knows me too well to deny what he is seeing.“I watched you die,” he says quietly, and there is no anger in his tone, only confusion and something dangerously close to breaking.I do not answer with words.Instead, I step closer, close enough to feel the warmth of

KaelThe drive to Moonshard feels longer than it ever has before.I sit behind the wheel, my hands steady on the steering wheel even though my mind is anything but steady. The road stretches ahead of us in that familiar winding path through the woods, sunlight filtering through the tall trees, the tires humming softly against the pavement.Beside me, Lala sits quietly.I glance at her from the corner of my eye for what must be the tenth time in the last five minutes. She has her fingers laced together in her lap, twisting them every now and then without realizing it. Her gaze stays fixed on the road ahead, but I can see the tension in her shoulders.She is nervous.Honestly, I cannot blame her.After everything she has been through, after believing her daughter was gone and then finding out the child had been right here all along, breathing the same air, walking the same ground, that kind of truth is enough to shake anyone.“You okay?” I ask gently.She exhales slowly, like she has be