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-"

can I not worry?" Jamie cut

to respond calmly, albeit with

something seemed off about Jamie's state of

angry or heartbroken on Winnie's behalf.

surged within her. "No,

her arm. "It's no use. We don't know what happened between them or what kind of relationship

it wasn't what we thought at

her expression dulling as if all the strength had drained from her

""You're right," she murmured.

the grave, standing silently before it, her lonely

forward, gently taking her hand. "At least she called you in her final moments. That shows how much you meant to her. You being here to send her off would have

leaned into him, her body shaking with suppressed sobs. "I don't have a

was buried, but there were still her belongings

the hospitalby Mrs. Lucas, and everything seemed stable for now. Jamie

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

in her home, refusing company except

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