All Chapters of STRANGER ATTRACTION : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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After The Funeral

The single word left my lips and emptied everything inside me. After asking “how,” nothing else would come. I stood rooted to the spot, arms slightly apart, mouth open, waiting. He saw the hunger for answers on my face. That same soft smile touched his lips, as if he already knew every question circling inside me.“Come. You want to know how I became all of this,” he said quietly, lifting his hands and studying them before offering one to me.My eyes fell to his open palm, then slowly rose to his face. He gave the smallest nod for me to take it. I raised my trembling hand and placed it in his. His skin felt strange, cold like fresh water, yet firm with a strength that no longer belonged to the boy I once knew. I searched his eyes again. He only smiled and kept my hand steady while I stepped closer.We walked a little past where Kaelith lay. My head turned toward her before I could stop myself.“What about Kaelith? Will she be all right?” I asked, unable to hide the fear in my voice.H

Last Updated : 2026-01-01

Married to Two Wives

Kaelith and I had stayed up most of the night, comforting Horris as he thrashed against his own fears. Last night had been worse than usual; he had nearly bolted from the compound, and it took both of us and several neighbors to hold him down. Every time his eyes darted wildly, my heart leapt into my throat. Kaelith never left my side, her hand tight around mine, silently promising we would get through this together.By 6:45 in the morning, just as the sky began to pale with early light, figures appeared at the edge of the compound. Elders, Kaelith’s father, and mine moved slowly, faces grim and long. I exchanged a glance with Kaelith. When had they left? Where could they have gone in the middle of the night?Kaelith pinched my hand behind Horris and gestured subtly, signaling that the elders had likely gone in search of a solution for him. My chest tightened, and I let out a quiet sigh of relief—but it didn’t last. The elders’ expressions remained serious, unreadable. My heart sank

Last Updated : 2026-01-02

Stars

Night with Horris was something all three of us eagerly looked forward to. Sometimes we even wished it could stay night forever. It felt as if the world belonged only to us when darkness came. Everyone thought we slept, but most nights we did not. We stayed awake talking, laughing, and making plans that were bigger than Ashwood.Horris would sometimes sit up dramatically, clear his throat, and say,“Alright, listen, both of you. Here is the plan. I will marry Kayla, we will have twenty children, maybe twenty-five if we are not tired.”I would gasp loudly.“Twenty what? Horris, are you opening a school?”He would continue as if he did not hear me.“Then we will carry all of them to Kaelith’s house and drop them there.”Kaelith would throw a pillow at him.“Why my house?”“Because,” Horris would reply proudly, “you are their godmother. You will train them, feed them, bathe them, chase them when they refuse to sleep…”“And what will you and my darling mother Kayla be doing?” Kaelith woul

Last Updated : 2026-01-03

Horris Died Without His Body

We made arrangements quickly. After the walk, we would take a bath in the lake. That was the plan. We laughed, talked, and teased each other as we grabbed our things. Then we raced toward the woods. Horris kept going ahead of us, turning back every now and then with that playful grin on his face.He tried to outrun us.“Slow down!” Kaelith and I screamed, but he did not listen. He only ran faster, his laughter echoing through the trees.Then it happened.It was so fast that it felt unreal. In the blink of an eye, Horris ran forward and disappeared. He had gone straight off a cliff. None of us knew there was a cliff there. It looked like the usual path, only covered with leaves. There was no sign, no warning, nothing.Kaelith and I froze.Everything we were carrying slipped from our shoulders and fell to the ground. Our hearts left our bodies. We rushed forward, hoping it was a small fall, hoping it was nothing serious.But when we reached the edge, we saw it.A very high cliff.Below

Last Updated : 2026-01-04

What Was Agreed

Horris’ POV“I didn’t die, Kayla. I didn’t drown the way you and Kaelith believed,” I said quietly, my fingers tightening around hers. She stared straight into my eyes. Fear lived there, but so did relief, and something warmer that she tried so hard to hide.My gaze dropped to our interlocked hands. “That is the only reason I stand here now,” I continued, my voice low. “Alive. Flesh, blood… and water.”When I looked back at her, my chest tightened. She had always been beautiful, but now she was breathtaking. Her warm brown skin glowed even in the dim cave light. Her dark hair fell around her face in soft waves. And her eyes—wide, dark, shining—pulled me in the same way they always had.Six years had not lessened what I felt. If anything, it had sharpened it. I still loved her. I always had.My gaze slipped to her lips. A small, unintentional smile rested there, and it shattered my focus. Without thinking, I lifted my hand to cup her cheek, to reassure myself she was real. Before I cou

Last Updated : 2026-01-05

The Portal

“Then, Kayla, just two days after Korra died… I had an uninvited guest.”Her fingers tightened slightly around mine. I could tell she was fully listening.“It was at dawn,” I continued. “I was lying on Korra’s bed, wide awake, staring at the same spot she stared at before she took her last breath. I couldn’t sleep. I kept replaying every memory I had of her. The woman who raised me. My mother… or the woman I thought was my mother.”I swallowed.“Then everything she said before dying rushed back into my head. I sat up immediately, wondering if anything she said had meaning at all, or if it was just part of whatever strange thing was happening to her.”I paused, then added quietly, “But things didn’t start then. They started years earlier, when I turned fourteen.”Kayla’s gaze sharpened.“I started noticing unusual things happening around me,” I said. “I could hear voices from miles away and knew exactly who was speaking. My sense of smell became… sharp. Too sharp. And, Kayla… my injuri

Last Updated : 2026-01-06

The Only Way

“Kayla,” I said softly, making sure she was really looking at me. I shifted closer, needing her full attention. “When that woman came out of the portal, her eyes changed. At first, they looked human, but the color wasn’t normal. They were silver, bright, shining like metal in sunlight.”I swallowed, remembering it vividly.“She started walking toward me. I panicked and stepped back, asking who she was and what she wanted. The moment I did that, she stopped. It was like my fear had offended her. Her face hardened, and the silver faded from her eyes. They turned plain white again. No pupils. No irises. Just white.”A chill ran through me as I spoke.“She looked at me without blinking and said, ‘It is time to come home, son.’”The word son hit me like a spear. My heart raced as I relived it.“I kept asking myself what home she meant. Ashwood is my home. Korra was my mother. Nothing else made sense. I forced myself to stand tall and asked her who she really was.”I drew a slow breath.“Sh

Last Updated : 2026-01-07

Born of Two Realms

“While I thrashed in the water pretending to drown, I saw you and Kaelith on the cliff. The way you both cried tore something open inside me. It felt like my chest was being ripped apart. At that moment, I did not know what to do anymore. Part of me wanted to abandon everything and climb out just to hold you. Another part knew what was waiting for me beneath the water.As I hesitated, I saw the fisherman running toward the shore, ready to jump in after me. At the same time, the queen’s guards finally arrived beneath the surface. If the fisherman had dived in then, he would have died for nothing. I could not let that happen, so I went with the guards.We sank deeper and deeper until the world around us shifted. In the blink of an eye, Ashwood disappeared. We were somewhere else entirely. The water glowed with pale blue light. Great towers of clear crystal rose from the ocean floor, and arches of pearl curved overhead like the ribs of some ancient creature. Strange lights drifted throug

Last Updated : 2026-01-08

Reunion

Kaelith’s POVI was trapped between sleep and waking, floating in a place that felt heavy and cold. The world around me was dark, but the past kept flashing in front of me over and over again. I could not move. I could not breathe properly. It felt like invisible weight was pressed over my arms and legs, holding me down, forcing me to watch.I saw yesterday again.Papa stood there, looking at me the same way he always did when he wanted to be strong but could not hide his pain. A single tear slid from his eye, shining before it fell. His gaze stayed locked to mine, like he was trying to say something without words. Then his body swayed.I tried to run to him.My body refused to obey.Papa’s knees buckled and he began to fall. Before he reached the floor, Tallis rushed forward and caught him, shouting his name, shaking him, begging him not to go. I kept trying to reach them. My hands would lift only a little before something unseen forced them back down.“Papa… please”The words choked

Last Updated : 2026-01-09

I Was Attacked!

My voice shook as I looked at him. “Horris… is it really you?” The words almost refused to come out, like my mouth was trying to catch up with my heart.He didn’t disappear.He didn’t fade like an illusion.He was there.I lifted my hand slowly and touched his face. His skin was warm. I brushed my fingers over his cheek, then pushed my hand into his hair, feeling the strands slip through my fingers. Some of it fell over his shoulders and I choked on a small cry.“It’s you,” I whispered. “It’s actually you.”He nodded, smiling through the tears already running down his face. That broke me completely. I wrapped my arms around him, holding on like he would vanish if I let go. He lifted me off the ground with ease, clutching me to his chest. I sobbed into him, shaking.“Is it really you?” I kept saying it, like I was begging reality to answer.Kayla couldn’t hold it anymore. She burst into tears and rushed to us, hugging us from behind. His arms tightened around both of us and we clung to

Last Updated : 2026-01-10

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