Zeke The next few days passed by in a blur. Ricky’s funeral was one of the hardest things I had to endure. Humans handled their dead differently than we do. They had funeral homes and embalmers who handled the bodies. The goal was to preserve it instead of letting it go back to the earth from which it came. The alphas and Lee came to pay their respects to the old man. He was a pillar of the community, and made evident by all the people who had come to pay their respects. Cecelia wanted to give the garage to me, but I didn’t want it. The sight of it held so many memories, the most recent being ones of devastation and pain. So, in the end, she closed the doors. No one blamed me or Maddy, but the guilt still ate away at the two of us. Especially after watching Cecelia hang the sign in the

