𝐁𝐀𝐃 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓?| Robby Keene & Eli Moskowitz [COMPLETED]

𝒍𝒙𝒗𝒊. she's back

CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX,
SHES BACK

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Cameron's breath hitched, her chest rising and falling as she looked at Robby, his face pale with frustration, with betrayal-and underneath it, heartbreak. She hadn't seen him in months. Not since the night everything cracked. And now here he was: on crutches, healing from an injury she hadn't even been around for, standing in front of her with disappointment in his eyes and bruises she didn't cause, but still felt responsible for.

"I didn't know," she said quietly, and for a second, her voice faltered. "About the surgery. I didn't know until after."

Johnny let out a scoff, shaking his head as he bounced the baby gently in his arms.

"But even if I had..." Cameron's voice wavered, and she blinked fast. "I don't know if I would've come. Not then."

That caught Robby off guard. "So why now?" he asked again, a little softer this time. "What changed?"

Cameron looked down at her boots, suddenly aware of how dusty and worn they were, how her jacket didn't quite fit right anymore. Everything about her felt wrong in this hallway-like she didn't belong here, like she never really had.

"Kwon," she said finally, the name scraping her throat on the way out. "When Kwon died... it-it broke something in me. We were just kids. We weren't supposed to die like that. Not over karate."

She swallowed hard, and this time, when she looked up, her eyes were glassy. "He wasn't even supposed to be there. And then he was gone, just like that. All the fights, all the tournaments, all the rivalries-it felt so stupid. So toxic. And I started thinking... what if I'm next? What if you are?"

Robby opened his mouth to speak, but she didn't give him the chance. It was like everything she'd been holding in burst loose all at once.

"I couldn't breathe," she said, voice cracking. "I couldn't sleep. I kept seeing his face-he was smiling that day. He smiled at me and then the next minute he was bleeding out and-" She stopped, clutching her stomach like the memory physically hurt. "I ran. I packed a bag and I got on the next bus to New York. I didn't tell anyone. I left my phone on the bench at the station."

Johnny's jaw tightened, but he didn't interrupt.

"I changed my name. Camden Lawrence. Like it would make me someone else. Like it would make the nightmares stop." She gave a wet, bitter laugh. "I started wrestling-underground stuff. No rules, no dojo, no stupid honor codes. Just pain. Controlled pain. It made sense. It gave me something to hit."

Robby's expression shifted-shock mixing with something like guilt.

Cameron wiped her face quickly with the sleeve of her jacket, but the tears kept coming. "I missed everything. Your surgery, your recovery, Laura being born. I missed you. And I'm sorry. I was scared. And being scared made me selfish."