Hearing this, Jamie finally exhaled a breath she hadn't realized she had been holding.

She focused on arranging Winnie's funeral, even though the weight of it was almost too much to bear.

The dead take the past and all the pain, mistakes, and regrets with them, leaving behind only memories worth keeping. But the more Jamie remembered, the more it hurt.

Ben had steadied her, calm and supportive. "If you need to cry, just cry. Your sister is gone, and everyone knows how much this hurts."

Jamie shook her head. She had cried enough. Now was the time to stay strong and see the funeral through, to send Winnie off properly.

The funeral lasted a long time, though few people attended. Winnie hadn't had many close connections in life.

"Where's Jack Green?" Jamie suddenly asked midway through.

He hadn't shown up.

Winnie had held onto her feelings for him until the very end. How could he not be here for her funeral?

Jamie's heart began to race with urgency. "Ben, can you contact him? If he comes now, there's still time-" "Jamie, don't worry-"

not worry?" Jamie cut him

startled by her reaction but forced himself to respond calmly, albeit with a

but notice that something

For a moment, she didn't know whether to feel angry or heartbroken on

her. "No, I have to

arm. "It's no use. We don't know what

it wasn't what

dulling as if all the strength had drained

""You're right," she murmured.

the grave, standing silently before it, her lonely figure heartbreakingly

watch. He stepped forward, gently taking her hand. "At least she called you in her final moments. That shows how much you meant to her. You being

her body shaking with

Jamie returned home in a daze. Winnie was buried, but there were still her

looked after at the hospitalby Mrs. Lucas, and everything seemed stable for now. Jamie was

earlier phone call, Jamie remembered Mrs. Lucas's steady tone and

in her

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