Grandma turned around and looked at me in the eyes. A few seconds later, she instructed, “That’s enough! Stop making a fuss when we’ve gathered around to send Lyle off for one last time!”

 

“Boohoo—” Wendy unfastened her grip and collapsed to the ground, wailing at the top of her lungs.

 

Standing in front of Lyle’s resting ground, we were the only ones left apart from the members of the Tanner family. It started drizzling shortly after a flurry.

The bouquets in front of Lyle’s grave were all over the place due to the squall. It felt as if God was equally disheartened by Lyle’s passing.

As guilt slowly caught up to me, I couldn’t even catch my breath when we were on our way out of the cemetery.

next to the car when we were out from the cemetery. It

the pent-up fatigue anymore, but I pulled myself together and greeted them, “Uncle

hushed voice when he saw my bandaged

 

over

you hurry up and get into the car? Otherwise, you’re

to the affectionate side of his, my eyes started brimming with tears. “Thank you so much, Uncle

 

since my trip to Yorksland. Others wouldn’t stop talking about the financial predicament of the Tanner

I wasn’t in good shape. “I’m so sorry for the delay, Uncle Nathan. I’ll get Mom to stop causing you troubles as soon as possible. It’s the least I can do to repay your

life in the first two decades of my life, things weren’t unbearable since I had a place to call home. Otherwise, I might’ve ended

Nathan was sincere when he expressed his

smile and assured him, “I’m just trying to return the

hospital once we wrapped up the conversation. He got the doctor to

me sheltered from the rain. Holding his hand, I

me in and suggested, “Why don’t you go ahead and take a short nap? I’m sure things will turn out fine by the time you wake

was there to keep me company until Isabelle was here to pick me up on the

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