The Last Step - Chapter 4: Lost Hope

... claw at the edges of my mind, it's just... gone. A blurry past. The faces, the places—they slip through my fingers like grains of sand. Even her face... Lyla.

She was everything to me—the light in my darkest moments, the one person I could never let go of.

The tears came before I could stop them, cold and endless. In my dream, they fell silently, dampening my cheeks. I wiped them away with trembling hands, but they kept coming, as though my heart couldn't stop bleeding through my ...