Jayden Januarie and Rudolph Adams.

“When my dad was on his sick bed, when he could no longer fight the cancer, his last words were that we must look after Jayden and make sure he stays with the family business.”

But before the flowers on her father’s grave turned brown, Jayden was gone too.

And that left Wellington resident, Jeandre Adams, 34, with a bitter pill to swallow.

The grief felt so heavy, Adams admits, that at times it felt as though she might give up.