"Do you have any words you want to say?" Aunt Ellen asks quietly. "At Saddler's funeral?"
Rachel grits her teeth and looks away.
"It's okay if you don't," Uncle George says. "We just wanted to offer."
Rachel hasn't cried in front of Jake, Cassie, or her mom. But she cries now without a hitch in her voice as she says, "I wish I could. I want to explain so it makes sense. But I'm sorry. I just can't."
They hug her, because they think she's a lost girl with no answers, but they cut like broken glass behind her teeth.