“Unlocking Secrets: What Lies Within Carrie Mac’s Mysterious Three Envelopes?”
Absolutely everything falls silent for one moment. Just one moment, and then Stephanie screams so loud that pigeons take off, and the baby starts crying.
The husband climbs in after her, then the brother, the two sons, and all the wretched noises of grief and shock and disgust topple over each other.
Only the young wife hangs back. The toddler leans against her leg while the baby points at the sky, crying at the pigeons who are two tiny specks flying away.
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After we transfer Belinda Marie Garner—aged eighty-seven—to the morgue, we go back to Emergency to clean up the ambulance. I scrub at the blood on the stretcher, while Dale gathers Belinda’s ruined polyester pants and pink cardigan.
