When Owen came into the picture, everything changed. Suddenly, she had a father figure, and his sons quickly became her friends, and as Jacob was closest to her in age, they became best friends almost immediately.

Owen married her mother within a year and they immediately moved in, and Josephine had never been happier. He treated her like his own, and her step brother's were always kind, always willing to share and spend time with her, they treated her like a sister, better almost. She was their sweetheart, and she basked in their attention.

And when her mother died suddenly in a car crash a little over a year later,...