Chapter 39

• It was raining heavily as Lily was buried, and Rafael felt agony in his heart. His little princess had left her forever, and it was so hard to believe. God couldn't be that cruel, he thought. How could he take his most precious thing from him?
• He and his family were standing there in the pouring rain; Lily's mother and grandmother had last seen her, and she had been buried; the Min family's lone child had died.
• Rafael couldn't bear to look at the fresh mound of dirt that now covered Lily's small body. The weight of grief felt like a physical ache in his chest, threatening to consume him whole.