~January 2018~

Pastor Tim placed a comforting hand on Riley‘s back. "She‘s in a better place, son."

"I just want her to be comfortable." Riley said hoarsely. He said that he wouldn‘t cry because this was Jewel Marlene Pranger‘s going home ceremony and he wouldn‘t look at it as her funeral. Hopefully now she would finally find rest.

Stella gripped his hand. He smiled at her thinking that she and Adam were the only family he had left—the only ...