All Chapters of STRANGER ATTRACTION : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Then who spread the rumor?

Kayla laughed bitterly.“Why would I, Veylor? So you can finish what you started?”That was it.“Oh please,” I snapped. “Not again. Not again! I am sick and tired of asking the same question while everyone keeps accusing me without telling me anything. What have I done that I don’t know about?”Her lips curled. She stepped away from her door and walked right up to me, eyes sharp and unforgiving.“What haven’t you done?” she said coldly. “You’re the reason everything happened the way it did.”She scoffed, her gaze sweeping over me like she was searching for something and finding nothing.“I wonder what she ever saw in you that she let it happen.”Her words hit me like a blow to the chest.“Let what happen?” I shouted. “Oh my god. Oh my fucking god, Kayla!”I was panting now, my heart slamming hard against my ribs, veins buzzing like they were on fire. I forced myself to breathe in, then out.“Okay, Kayla,” I said, holding up a hand. “Let’s do it like this. No more beating around the bu

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

Someone Had Done This!

“Listen to me, Veylor,” Kayla pleaded. “Her brothers and sisters are out trying to get help for her and their papa. An elder is inside with them, watching over both of them. You need to leave. Please. Now.”“No,” I said firmly, shaking my head. “I will not leave without seeing Kaelith. And I will not leave her here without proper medical care. Not now. Not ever.”“We do not have any in Ashwood, remember? Just leave, Veylor. Leave while you still can,” Kayla cried.“I do not care,” I shot back. “Even if I have to take her out of Ashwood, I will. I am not leaving here without her!”I brushed past Kayla and broke into a run toward Kaelith’s house. I did not knock. I shoved the door open and barged in.The sitting room was dim. An old woman sat in the middle of it, burning incense in a small clay bowl, rocking slightly as she mumbled words I could not make out. Her skin was deeply lined, her gray hair tied back loosely, her eyes half-closed, as if somewhere far away.“Ma’am,” I said breat

Last Updated : 2025-12-23

Stand Down!

Iris left her sisters behind and rushed toward me. Kaelith lay in my arms, her weight light, terrifyingly light. Iris placed her hands over mine, touching Kaelith as if that alone gave her some right.“Veylor, you’re here?” she said breathlessly. “And—and what are you doing with Kaelith? Where are you taking her?”I shifted slightly and shook her hands off me. My arms tightened around Kaelith without thinking.“I’m taking her to the hospital. She needs intensive care,” I said, my voice hard, my gaze locked on the men ahead, their faces twisted with rage.“What hospital?” Iris snapped. “We don’t have any here. So where exactly are you taking her?”My gaze flew back to her. She stepped closer again, trying to loosen my grip on Kaelith, her fingers digging into my arm. I shoved her away and walked past her without another word.One of the men stepped forward, fists clenched, but the other grabbed his arm and held him back. They both watched me as I reached them.“Please,” I said, forcing

Last Updated : 2025-12-24

I Am A Nobody!!

I was thrown out like some used piece of rag, my back slamming into the dirt, dust bursting around me. Laughter didn’t follow. Something worse did. Silence. Heavy, judging silence. Almost half of Ashwood stood there, watching me like I was filth dragged out of a sacred place.Humiliated. Bruised. Bleeding.But none of that mattered.Finding Kaelith before it was too late—that was all that mattered.I pushed myself up slowly, my body screaming in protest. The crowd had grown thicker. More faces. More eyes. They pierced into me from every angle. Some stared with disgust, as if I were a curse that had fallen on their town. Some looked with pity, the kind that carried no intention of helping. Others watched like they wished I would vanish, as if my very presence poisoned the air.They did not understand.They just did not understand.Kaelith could die.The weight of their stares crushed the last shred of composure I had left.“What is wrong with all of you?!” I shouted, my voice tearing t

Last Updated : 2025-12-25

The Shape-shifter

Kayla’s POVI ran. Branches tore at my clothes and slapped my face, but I only tightened my hold on Kaelith and kept moving. Her body hung limp in my arms, her head resting against my shoulder, her breath so faint I could barely feel it. My legs should have given out, yet they didn’t. Something else was moving me.The voice.Deep. Baritone. Heavy, like thunder trapped inside a cave. It slid into my bones and reverberated through them until my skull felt full of it.“Kayla…”It began the moment Veylor placed Kaelith in my arms.My plan had been simple at first: hide her in my room, lock the door, and keep everyone away.But the instant I reached the entrance, it happened.“Kayla!”I froze.For a second I thought it was Veylor, or Corven, or even Tallis. I spun, searching the chaos, but they were still fighting and shouting, too consumed with tearing each other apart to notice anything else.I turned to go inside the house.“Kayla…”This time it came like a breath against the back of m

Last Updated : 2025-12-26

The Elders Lied

“We’re running out of time.”That was the only thing the strange man in white said to me. He did not answer my question. He did not even act like he heard me at all. He simply spoke, and the sound rolled through the air like distant thunder.He turned away from me immediately after speaking.He didn’t walk.He whipped around, his white cloak flowing after him a second too late, and the suddenness of it tore a gasp from me. Fear shot through me so fast my knees weakened. I staggered backward, my heel skidding on gravel near the cliff edge. The world tilted, and the wind roared up from below.I almost went over.I flung my arms out, reaching for anything at all, and before I could even scream, his hand was already wrapped around my wrist.He had appeared from nowhere, his grip iron. His skin felt cold, like something that had forgotten warmth long ago. He pulled me forward with frightening ease, steadying me as if I were a child who had simply tripped. The moment I found my balance, he

Last Updated : 2025-12-27

Intertwined Destinies

I stood there for a while, my mind full of too many thoughts at once, when a sharp sound cracked through the quiet like someone snapping fingers right beside my ear. It pulled me back to the present. I looked ahead and saw the old man already farther away from me, with Kaelith drifting behind him.Two choices pressed hard on me. I could turn around, run back home, and tell everyone what I had just seen. Or I could follow him and find out where he was taking her. I knew that if I went back now, by the time anyone followed me here, both of them would be gone. No one would believe me either.I did not think again.I ran.Branches brushed my arms as I moved through the woods. Dry leaves crunched beneath my feet. My breath came heavy, but my legs kept going on their own. I could see them in front of me, not moving fast at all, yet no matter how hard I tried, the distance between us did not close. They seemed to glide ahead while I pushed through bushes and roots that rose from the ground l

Last Updated : 2025-12-28

Trapped

The fire swelled higher until it curved over Kaelith like a burning shell. It roared and circled her, rising and closing above her head.The heat rolled toward me in heavy waves. It felt like the air itself was burning. I tried to stand firm, but it was too much. My eyes filled with tears as panic took control of me.“What have you done?” I shouted. “You are going to get Kaelith killed. Make it stop! Please, make it stop!”I screamed at the old man, my voice cracking and raw.“Please… make it stop!”I wailed, my throat straining, twisting with fear. I could barely see through my tears.I tried to move closer, ready to drag her out if I could, but the heat slammed into me, forcing me backward even before I reached the fire. It felt like my skin would peel off if I took one more step. I raised my hands to shield my face.“Stop it!” I cried, my chest burning. “You said you would help her! You are hurting her! Please, stop! Oh, what have I done?!”My words bounced off the stone walls whil

Last Updated : 2025-12-29

Horris

My screams bounced around the cave until my throat felt raw, but the hissing only grew louder, angrier, closer. It slithered through the dark like breath from the stone itself. I spun and ran to the entrance we had used before. The wall that had sealed itself shut now stood there like a mountain.I pressed both palms against it and pushed with everything in me. Nothing moved.My hands searched wildly along the cold surface, up and down, side to side, desperate to feel anything that could open it. A crack. A switch. A hollow. Anything.“Please open,” I cried, my voice breaking as I beat the rock again and again. “Please. Please.”Tears poured down my face. Behind me, the thing inside the wall scraped harder, impatient now. The sound deepened into a low, rumbling growl hidden beneath its hiss. Stone shifted. Dust rained down in thin streams. The hissing turned sharp and violent, like steam escaping fire.I struck the rock until pain exploded through my hands. Skin split. Warmth spread a

Last Updated : 2025-12-30

Resurrected

I did not think. I just moved.I threw myself into Horris’s arms and held on to him with everything in me. He caught me easily and lifted me off the ground. My legs wrapped around him on their own. I was laughing and crying at the same time.“Horris,” I said again and again, my voice shaking with joy. “Horris, where have you been? We saw you in the water. You fell from the cliff. You drowned, Horris, you really drowned. How are you here? How did you survive? Where did you go? Why did you not come back?”The questions poured out of me without stopping. I did not give him a chance to answer. I only kept talking and holding him, afraid that if I let go he would disappear again.He held me close. One hand rested on my back, the other moved gently over my hair, slow and steady, like he was calming a frightened child.For a moment I forgot the cave. I forgot the fire. I forgot fear. All I felt was the shock and relief of seeing him alive after six long years.Six years since I watched him f

Last Updated : 2025-12-31

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