I'm Dead, but She Wants Me to Take the Fall
she murmured to herself, as if asking someone else, or perhaps only herself.
The attendant gave her a puzzled look.
"You didn't know? Lily's father, Shane Foster, died even earlier. According to our records, he passed away before his daughter. There was no way he could have come to claim her ashes."
If the news of our daughter's death had been a shock, the attendant's next statement froze Charlotte where she stood.
"You… What are you talking about? No. That's impossible." Her head snapped up, eyes bloodshot.
"How could he have died earlier? He clearly—"