Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 1051:

Sharon retreated into distant memories, her forehead creasing with concentration. “The forensic technology then certainly paled compared to today’s methods. However, detectives discovered a pearl necklace adorning the female victim—an accessory Mrs. Hudson habitually wore, and therefore…”

And thus, on this fragile evidence alone, authorities had established the identities of the departed.

To conclude definitively that the remains belonged to Sadie’s mother, Brenda, based merely on a strand of pearls struck Sadie as appallingly premature.

A leaden weight pulled at Sadie’s heart, yet simultaneously, a whisper of possibility flickered anew within her.

If the authorities’ entire determination had rested upon nothing more substantial than a pearl necklace, perhaps the entire identification process had been flawed.

She clasped Sharon’s weathered hand within her own and guided her toward Laura’s photograph.

the photograph.

clouded her features, then dawning recognition caused her

her eyes and bent forward for closer

vessels she had personally chosen

with startling clarity—she had carefully deposited what she believed were their “ashes” into these containers and interred them with her own

begins with ga

these sacred containers

precariously around Sharon, her knees threatening to buckle beneath the weight of

tonight, determined to finally bring my parents home. But when I opened them,

from Sharon’s face, leaving her complexion ashen

her lips quivering