‘The feeling I’ve had from the moment I got here was that if Ivy were alive, she’d have been happy to see me. At the wake, it felt like I was able to bury all that had happened between us. Like being there had somehow made things okay.’ I shake my head and swallow against the reality behind my words. ‘But I know that’s not true. The way we split from each other was not good. Imagining that things somehow magically fixed themselves is just deluded.’
