CHAPTER 41 TRUE GRIEF

As Samantha watched her father’s gravestone, she wondered what her first question would be if she could ask him questions—as she had many questions to ask. She knew it would not be about his well-being, wherever he was. Samantha looked at the flowers on their graves and sighed heavily. The flowers on the grave were beautiful and colorful in the colorless place. Her father had been allergic to them while he was still alive, so Samantha removed them and placed them on her mother's grave. Jake watched her and shook his head, thinking she hated her father so much she didn't believe him worthy of flowers. The chirping birds from above her head drew her attention away from their graves, and she looked at the doves on the soil. She smiled at them before returning her gaze to her parents. She traced her fingers softly over the engraved letters of her parents' names, feeling the coolness of the stone beneath her touch. Memories of how she would come to her mother's grave and cry filled her h