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-"

worry?" Jamie

was startled by her reaction but forced himself to respond

that something seemed off

the people continuing with the burial. For a moment, she didn't know whether to feel angry or heartbroken on Winnie's behalf. Even now, the man Winnie had loved wouldn't

within her. "No, I have to find

We don't know what happened between them or what kind of relationship they truly

wasn't what we thought

her expression dulling as if all

""You're right," she murmured.

silently before it,

you in her final moments. That shows

body shaking with suppressed

home in a daze. Winnie was buried, but there were still her belongings to sort

suggested she rest. Charlie was being looked after at the hospitalby Mrs. Lucas, and everything seemed stable for now. Jamie was the one who

phone call, Jamie remembered Mrs. Lucas's steady

herself in her home, refusing

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