Gretchen yawned and it wasn’t even noon yet. She finished the funeral pieces and set them in the refrigeration unit for the family to pick up. Her nerves assaulted her, because it was Augustus Hammond and his daughter Yvonne who needed the funeral arrangements. Glenny Hammond had passed away, after only a few months’ battle with cancer.
Gretchen hadn’t seen or spoken to Drew in almost a month. She hadn’t seen or spoken to hardly anyone in that time, except Janey and the customers she had. When Augustus had come to order the flowers, Yvonne hadn’t come with him, but she fully expected to see the woman today.
She’d never been so lonely as she had been this past month, not even after Aaron died. After the funeral had ended, after everyone had gone home, it had just been her and Dixie. But s
