Jasper asked in shock, “Aren’t you waiting for the paternity test result? I believe that Bradley will send Tinkerbell off if he learns that she’s his daughter.”

“Him?” Esther scoffed and said frostily, “He better not come taint my daughter’s path to the afterlife.

Jasper tried again. “Esther, if you’re reluctant, we can…”

Esther shook her head. “Let her rest in peace so she can be reincarnated soon. I hope Tinkerbell doesn’t meet a mother like me or a father like Bradley in her next life. I hope she comes to this world under the anticipation of her parents and gets a happy family.”

Jasper could not help turning away and saying, his voice choking up, “Things will be as you wish.”

Esther did not have real friends or family here.

Tinkerbell’s funeral, grand and luxurious, ended only after half a day.

Esther watched Tinkerbell, who was on the cart, and crouched down to hug her longingly, giving her one last hug with all she had.

‘Tinkerbell, sorry.

Mommy’s fault

run into a careless mother like me in your next

‘My dear Tinkerbell, farewell.’

of Tinkerbell softly and pressed a kiss on her forehead with so much longing before she slowly

funeral parlor’s staff gently pushed Tinkerbell into the furnace, and raging flames engulfed the small casket

with reddened eyes and

Jasper took Esther to the cemetery. With

Faye Quill’s

for her. She shoveled a pit and planted a four -year-old apple tree. She put the

soil with both hands.

then watered the tree and hung a customized stainless steel plate that read: “Tinkerbell, a four- year-old girl”, and her birthday. Behind the plate, it read: “She came to this world for a

with her parents, so

and the apple tree leaves swayed, like Tinkerbell

and Thomas, not saying a word throughout the process. She thought there

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