Why hadn’t she hugged him goodbye? Tears fell down her cheeks, and she tossed the bread back on the plate. There was an emptiness inside of her that had gnawed wider and wider since her father’s death. Helping Rory and setting him up for success had been her only goal for the past four years, and now he was gone. Where was his body? Had Mallow truly burned it? Briony’s eyes scrunched in pain: There was nowhere even to mourn him. He wouldn’t be placed in the Rosewood mausoleum with their father and mother.
