"Just a piece of paper? Who'd buy that!"
"Reopen the case? Spare me!"
The crowd remained utterly unmoved by Hailey's outburst.
Hailey watched in horror as James's urn shattered, scattering his ashes across the ground.
The onlookers erupted in cruel laughter and applause, stomping and grinding the ashes into the dirt.
Hailey fell to her knees, crawling desperately to gather what remained, but countless feet kept crushing down, grinding their heels into her fingers.
Susan crouched beside her, eyes gleaming with triumph as she hissed, "I'll make sure you and your father rot in misery for life."
After the crowd dispersed, cemetery staff scrubbed her father's gravestone with visible disgust.
"Ms. Lange," one snapped, "you should find another graveyard. Our humble place can't accommodate
