• Chapter 3

  • Then inspiration struck. I threw myself across Dave’s body, wailing. “Baby, what are we going to do? If we don’t get you cremated before 11 AM, your soul won’t find peace!

  • The other families in the waiting room turned to stare.

  • 1 dropped to my knees, clasping my hands. “In my grandmother’s culture, there’s a belief that cremation has to happen before 11 AM, or the soul can’t cross over. Please. I’m begging you could we possibly go ahead of you?”

  • Some looked sympathetic, others skeptical, most just uncomfortable.

  • I pulled out my phone. “I’ll send each family $3,000 through Venmo right now.”

  • Money talks. They agreed immediately.

  • After transferring the cash, I wheeled Dave toward the cremation chamber.

  • I noticed his middle finger twitching. Still trying to flip me off, even at the end.

  • I leaned down and whispered, “Scared now, aren’t you? Should’ve thought about this before you

  • decided to screw me over.”

  • The crematorium technician asked me to wait in the lobby.

  • I pressed a thousand–dollar bill into his hand. “Please, let me stay with my husband until the very

  • end.”

  • “Rest in peace, darling,” I said sweetly as I helped slide him into the chamber and hit the ignition

  • button.

  • The flames roared to life.

  • Moments later, the doors burst open.

  • Carol and Mike had made it.

  • When Carol saw the flames through the chamber window, she collapsed in a dead faint.

  • Nightc

  • 80.3%

  • “Shut it down! He’s not dead? Mike showed, rushing toward the control.

  • I

  • one who pronounced him dead and signed the death coificate..

  • you’re saying he’s alive? Want to

  • Mike froze, trembling

  • saw dds

  • he’ll always be alive in our hearts,” Mike

  • looking at serious jail time if he admitted

  • license would be toast.

  • me worried there for

  • he was alive going in,

  • up inside the

  • I jumped.

  • about that,” the

  • from the heat. Happens all

  • “Oh, thank goodness!”

  • both knew better.

  • Dave’s final

  • over and threw up.

  • guilt of being an accessory to murder was

  • okay there, doc?”

  • 80.5%

  • he gasped, collapsing

  • back

  • Dave’s ashes and his belongings, then headed straight to

  • saw her. I broke down in tears and hangged her

  • previous life. Mom had sold her house to help me pay off Dave’s

  • worked herself to death, doing double shifts at

  • failed her then. Never

  • once everything’s settled, we’re going to live together.”

  • raised me solo, working three jobs to put me

  • meatloaf with mac and cheese–comfort food she rarely splurged on anymore.

  • dinner, she mentioned

  • a Mega Millions jackpot ticket last week–just a quick pick with

  • the clerk had misheard and printed it

  • coffee table, but it had

  • won

  • store.

  • my lucky ticket,” she chuckled sadly. “But what can you do?

  • I pulled out the ticket and checked the store number.

  • I found your ticket.

  • actually won $200

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