“Don’t bury her—that’s not her in the coffin!” a little girl cries out at a Chicago funeral, stopping everything as a shocking truth inside the coffin is revealed

He did not soften.

“You will leave this country tonight. New name. New documents. You will never contact Caroline, Ava, Rosa, or me again. If you return, blood will not save you twice.”

The guards removed Vivian from the room. Her voice carried down the hallway — that he would regret it, that Caroline would leave him, that Ava had poisoned his mind.

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