I know that I loved her and couldn’t have wished for a better niece.That brings me back to the ambulance. The ride was rough, the EMTs professional,... and the company holding my hand was beautiful like her mother. Ka-Ka was holding it in, I could tell. She looked scared. I reached up with her hand in mine and kissed the back of her hand, and she smiled that smile that made me the proudest uncle in this man’s army for her entire life.When we got to the hospital, I was rushed into the ER. Ka-Ka. “Would you be so kind?” Cheryl forced herself to say in a teasing voice, as she pulled her long red hair over her shoulder and turned her back to the man.He unhooked the little catch at the top and then slowly unzipped the beautiful redhead’s dress. Cheryl then turned around to face the two men. With the chain being attached to her right ankle, she couldn’t let the dress fall around her ankles and step out of it, as she normally would have. Instead, the redhead had to work the dress up over her. “Maybe, but she was supposed to follow you on your run, not just sit back. You were her detail that morning, and she failed. No, she didn’t just watch. But she should have been there to watch your back. In that way, her failure is worse because she didn’t even try to perform her duty,” Anna explained.I got that. Having been in the Army, dereliction of duty could get people killed. But she hadn’t acted out of malice. There is a big difference between being stupid and being cruel, though the. His heart was filled with joy unlike he’d ever known. It made him almost breakdown and cry. It was absurd, illogical—the realm of shadows was pulling them into its deep, almost black mists along with the angel of destruction—it wasn’t a moment for joy. They would be lost forever including his love… including his unborn child. An amazing thing happened then. One moment he was smothered beneath hundreds, maybe thousands of glowing cherubs, the next he was falling along with the others in a heap.