Chapter 85

OLIVIA

I stare at the people before me, I don’t even half of the people that came. I still couldn't believe it is her funeral. I can’t fathom the fact that she killed herself. I don't understand why she would do something like this. Was the pain too much for her? Didn't she want to live anymore? I wish I could talk to dead people then I would ask her why she did it.

My hand grabs hold of the letter she left for me in my pocket.

“I was given a letter by my father from mom. I didn’t have the courage to read before but now I have,” I spot the Payne brothers at the back in black suits and sunglasses. They came. My mother’s coffin stands in front of me.

I take it out and open it, finally finding the courage to read it.

Olivia,

My beautiful, my one and only daughter. I’m a coward. This is the first time I have written a letter to anyone; it feels so weird writing all I have been feeling and felt on a piece of paper.

My mind forms an image of her laughing with tears rolling down her ch