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AXEL

The last few days were a roller coaster. I had passed through different emotions too fast for anyone to handle. Although I did not care about Ashley's mum, I felt the weight of Ashley's loss.

I had to hold her close throughout, as we performed the burial rituals because she wouldn't stop shedding tears and sniffing. I spoke a lot of reassuring words, just to make her see that she had us, but none of that made her stop crying.

I could imagine what she was going through. Losing one's mother in such a painful way was not good for anyone. But it had happened and we all just had to move on.

I didn't give a fuck about the death of my father. Instead, it was a relief, because he would have killed us if he had survived another day. When I thought of him, all I could see was a cold-hearted killer.

I turned to see Ashley sleeping calmly by my side, while Carson and Brody were on the other side. Thankfully, she was not turning in her sleep. After her mother's burial, she seemed to have beco