CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
After a few days, Leah had a call from the police telling her that Nat’s body could now be released to the funeral home, as the coroner had decided that she had died from natural causes. The word ‘body’ still made her flinch. And which funeral home was she to deal with and what did she need to do? As Nat had no living relatives in the UK and no easily traceable ones in Russia, the responsibility of arranging the funeral fell to Leah, with Nat having appointed her next of kin. It had seemed like an honour at the time, but now she found herself wondering why Nat hadn’t chosen someone older and more experienced; someone she’d known for some time, like Helen or Melissa, who would know what to do.
In the end, it was to Helen and Geoffey Birchall that she turned, reasoning
