It was a gamble. Attending Henry’s funeral was a risk because there would be people there who knew her as Ella Sinders, and as Juliet stood on the periphery, watching the black clad mourners gather around the casket where the pastor was speaking, she spotted the one person she most needed to avoid in the whole world--her father.
Of course he was there. Even though Henry’s father had disowned him after he stabbed Rome and then killed himself, refusing to even fly his son’s body back to his native France or attend the funeral himself, Lloyd Sinders had been a work associate of the Caron’s family for decades. He had known Henry since he was a child. So Ella wasn’t surprised at all to see her father standing in the crowd. Nor did it shock her to see Drew and Anna there. What was strange to her was that her stepmother, Teresa, was absent.
