Now that the words were out of his mouth, Ian couldn't back down.

“Do you think she might have run away? Maybe you've never thought about it since you were a child then, but you just said that there was a car outside your door when she left. If your aunt was inside, why didn't she go in to see her nieces and nephew? And why did she choose to leave when your father was gone and promised to pick you up? And why didn't your father, despite his grief, insist that she be buried near you?”

“But she never sent for us,” Eden objected, even though she promised to....