***CONTENT WARNING!!!*** The following chapter depicts graphic, emotionally straining scenes. This chapter may be upsetting for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.
The day of the execution:
After the events of yesterday morning, we spent the rest of the day watching movies together. Mia, Milly, and Max had a small, private dinner with their father that night and finished up planning his funeral.
The following morning, the whole house was somber. No one spoke, no one sneezed, and no one coughed the whole morning. Cookie and Ms. Alma made breakfast for us, but none of us could eat. The Aten children just sat around their father in perpetual silence as the minutes ticked by. Nothing was spoken until Alpha Wade appeared with the rest of the council to take Gunner to the execution c
