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Erika sighed as Craig's tongue captured every last stray crumb from her fingers as she hand-fed him his breakfast before giving her a quick kiss. Turning away, he climbed up onto the hearse, reaching for the reigns without looking back as he guided the horses forward, bringing mother and daughter to their final destination. Pierre was from a remote village, so it wasn't a surprise that, aside from his children, there was no one to mourn their death. Erika followed behind the slowly moving hearse, lost in her own thoughts, the sun choosing that moment to hide behind a cloud. Pierre was the perfect target, all his relatives lying cold beneath the ground in the very same churchyard where his wife and infant daughter would be laid to rest. There was no one left to help the widower with his remaining children, Genevieve's three elder siblings already lying in the family plot. Erika assumed the offer for his children to remain behind would come as a relief to the grieving father who