“No, this can’t be.” Their grandmother said from behind me, as I stared at Chase, wondering why that was all he said to them, before he began to walk away towards the barn. Standing there in shock, I watched Chase walk away from all of us, while Cash threw his arms around me, pulling me into a tight embrace, as he whispered into my ear, “I am so sorry, love, for your loss.” I took comfort in Cash’s embrace, but I couldn’t help but look over his shoulder at Chase walking away, knowing that we all needed to sit down and talk about what happened at the hospital today, but by the looks of it, that wasn’t going to happen. At least not at this moment. It was clear that Chance’s accusations of him doing something to me had thrown Chase back into his old self, leading him to walk away like he

