Chapter 12

(Lily’s pov)

Nights after nights, I couldn’t sleep, I prayed for a miracle but it wasn’t coming, I had no one to cry to, not even one person to console me, the only friend who should have consoled me betrayed me with my ex fiancé, Austin.

My dad was the only one I shared my pain with but now that he is gone I was left to bear all the pains alone, I almost exploded. All my hope has been swept off, I saw what was before me but I wasn’t ready to face it, not alone, not with someone who I could run to when I can’t bear it anymore, not with my dad. Pain became my food, I fed on pain day and night.

While I mourned my father, I started getting weak, strength left me and I couldn’t do anything to help myself anymore, there was no one to ask me how I was doing since our nanny stopped work when dad got sick.

I wished to die and join my parents but death wasn’t coming.

Since I was the only family my dad had left, I planned his burial all alone, paid the mortuary bills from the money Jack gave me