Chapter 234

Alexander

Ella’s funeral was long and exhausting. And yet, somehow, it was all such a blur that it almost seemed to go by too quickly. I vaguely recalled placing flowers on her casket, watching as it got lowered into the ground, listening to the kind words spoken about her…

But if anyone were to ask me for specifics, I couldn’t tell them.

By the time I got home that night with Lucien still cradled in my arms, fussing now for milk, I felt like I,

too, had been lowered into that grave beside Ella.

Somehow, I managed to feed and change Lucien, then give him his medicine. He still had to be hooked up to an oxygen machine at night, so I carefully placed the tubes in his nostrils before settling in the rocking chair next to that beautiful crib I had built and rocked him to sleep.

Lucien didn’t like to sleep without being held. So I held him all night.

The following morning, I had slept on and off, but not more than a few minutes here and there. Lucien

strain on his lungs and the uncomfortable oxygen tubes, so I

that day. Frankly, I was looking forward to that

stop giving me their fake condolences and would move on with their lives while

it always went, wasn’t it? Everyone cared during the funeral process, but

to fend on


to focus on, and besides, I didn’t need anyone’s false sympathies. I just wanted to

back

come. Because no sooner than six o’clock in the morning, I heard

front door.

didn’t answer, expecting it to be a newspaper delivery person or a final straggler coming to

into the nursery.

is it?” I

wants

applications were supposed to be submitted online,

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