Jakub’s body was wheeled out of the morgue and the family members needed to take their final farewells of it.
Elder Mrs. Henderson didn’t go near the body and just collapsed.
Elder Mr. Henderson waved his hand to let Clara carry her mother away.
Then he approached Jakub.
Standing next to them, Khalid and Marshall cannot bear to witness the scene.
Elder Mr. Henderson stood beside the wheel stretcher and lifted the white sheet that was covering Jakub’s body and stared his face for a while.
Elder Mr. Henderson seemed to let out a final sigh and said, “My son, why are you being such a fool?”
The hospital didn’t give them much time to say goodbye and just urged them to wheel the body inside.
Then the hospital staff came over and wheeled the stretcher in and said that they call collect the ashes in half an hour.
Well, actually, the only item a person can leave behind the world was those ashes in that tiny box.
Elder Mr. Henderson gazed at the direction of the cremator and then suddenly burst into tears.
It seemed that only at this time he started examining himself.
He sobbed, “Jakub, I’m sorry.”
But all of those words were meaningless at this point.
After elder Mrs. Henderson was supported by Clara, she cried violently and then just fainted away.
Clara’s auntie then helped her to carry elder Mrs. Henderson onto the chair.
Clara then walked towards Marshall, “Thanks for coming.”
Marshall didn’t know what to say and just said, “I’m sorry for your loss.”
Clara nodded and lowered her voice, “How are you and Katherine recently? Are you all right?”
Marshall looked at her with the corner of his eyes and whispered, “We’re okay for now. Did you know anything?”
Clara can’t really tell him, but the truth was she really didn’t know the details.
She just overheard some of the conversations of elder Mr. Henderson and old Mr. Henderson and didn’t have any concrete evidences.
She then just shook her head.
Marshall mused for a while and added, “Does your family have any subsidiary businesses?”
Clara blinked her eyes and replied, “I don’t know.”
She really didn’t know that, but she heard that her family did have some other business apart the company from her father and grand-father.
Old Mr. Henderson didn’t really lay out the whole thing clearly and Clara only got to hear some of the information, so she couldn’t piece everything together.
Now that Marshall was suddenly asking her about this, she was really bewildered.
Marshall scanned around and murmured, “Now that you warned me, I got to tell you the truth. Your family seems to be running an underground casino and is handing out low interest loans. This is a bit fishy.”
Clara frowned, “Fishy?”
Marshall can’t really tell her all the details and can really give her this amount of information.
Elder Mr. Henderson cried uncontrollably and Clara hurriedly rushed towards him and soothed him.
There were quite a lot of people being cremated right now. Now that Marshall was standing here to witness all the family members who were crying their eyes out, he felt that death was a totally normal thing that was happening in this world for the first time in his life.
There were many people departing from this world everyday which left their families overwhelmed with grief for the rest of their lives.
Jakub’s ashes were brought out in half an hour.
The Hendersons had prepared the urn beforehand and packed the ashes neatly.
Elder Mr. Henderson and elder Mrs. Henderson both came down with grief and didn’t go to the mortuary house and Clara was left to send the urn to the house.
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