Tessa lifted her hands instinctively, her fingers trembling as they stretched into the air like she could still catch something that mattered. The ashes fell steadily from the box Curtis held above her, soft and grey, drifting down onto her hair, her face, her lips, her shoulders. For a moment, she didn’t even breathe. Her eyes widened, her mouth parted in disbelief, and then the reality hit her all at once.“No…” she gasped, her voice cracking under the weight of it.Her hands moved frantically, trying to gather the ashes before they touched the ground, before they disappeared. But they slipped through her fingers, light and merciless, scattering across the earth beneath her knees. Her chest tightened painfully, and a broken sob escaped her throat.“My baby…” she whispered, her voice shaking.She bent forward, ignoring the ache in her body, and began to scoop at the ground, her fingers digging into the soil as she tried to gather what she could. But it was useless. The ashes sp
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