“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

When he finished, she said, “I trusted her.”

“I know.”

“She used my fear.”

“I know.”

Caroline looked at him, and tears came to her eyes.

“But I did fear your world, Gabriel. Vivian twisted it, but she didn’t invent it.”

That truth wounded him more deeply than any accusation would have.

Gabriel sat beside her bed.

“I can’t promise I was ever a good man,” he continue reading …