Chapter One hundred and Twenty-Four

Lauren's POV

It took a long moment of waiting before a large vehicle pulled up to the cemetery with the right coffin.

The past few weeks had been a blur of police investigations, yelling at and confronting the possible suspects. All of that faded into the background of my mind as I finally stood in front of the coffin which was now open, exposing the woman who had both been through a lot and had put me through a lot as well.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered to her as I stepped as close as the distance between me and the coffin would allow. Her being dead was a reality that I was still finding difficult to grasp. Even at that, I knew that this was goodbye and there was nothing I could do to escape it.

I knelt beside the coffin and placed a small necklace that she had given to me as a child beside her. It was something that I outgrew but still took with me everywhere I could.

“Say hello to Dad for me, okay?” I said. “I love you. Goodbye.”

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