Struggling to steady her breath, Cartier eventually managed to appear unchanged from when she had last stepped foot in Beverly Hills before entering her mother's funeral. With a closed casket by the request of her mother, Cartier was only met with the large portrait of her mother's smiling face left as a reminder of her mother's features. With so much that had happened in the last several weeks, Cartier seemed to forget the most mundane things-such as details of her childhood home and the elements that made up her mother's face. But this picture had only reminded her of her mother's fake smile as she could tell, even in such an apparently blissful photograph, that her maternal guide had been dead behind her eyes.
"Oh my gosh! Where have you been?!" Jared questioned as he took her into a
