62. FAREWELL, FATHER

~I'll smile, I know what it takes to fool this town

I'll do it 'til the sun goes down

And all through the night time, oh yeah,

Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what you want to hear

Keep my sunglasses on while I shed a tear

It's never the right time, yeah, yeah~

- (Sia) Unstoppable

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While Stefanos stood there in the most front of all the guests attending the funeral, he made sure to keep a decent distance between him and his step mother, who stood in between her two crippled sons along with Keke.

No longer was she crying and bawling her eyes out like she did earlier in front of Stefanos, her face a blank mask but the number of times she swallowed the bile in her throat said a different story.

Keke had his hands fisted, his lips pressed into a thin line as he held back tears, but a few drops had already escaped.

And the crippled brothers? Well, they were too crippled to cry for others, their misery and humility besting