"I have a message from Grandmother and Grandfather," Collins said, after a long silence. He didn't want to continue with the previous conversation. Jacob's words were continually touching places he didn't want them to.
Meanwhile, Jacob was silent after hearing those words. His late wife's parents hadn't said a word to him or asked him since the day she died. Their reaching to him now was but a thing of surprise and a thing to catalyze his guilt. Before now he wouldn't mind if they reached to him or not but right now… right now it was different the send their words after the memorial of their daughter, his wife and at a time that he had had enough time to think about everything, both past and present and even the future he was not he had or would like to see.
"...What did they say?" Jacob asked after a long pause
