Chapter 20 — Fifteen Years Ago

“There are things about your mother that you never knew, Evelyn,” Arthur said, “and the first of them is why she disappeared from all of our lives, including mine, fifteen years ago.

It was not the simple falling-out you may have grown up believing.

It was a choice she made to protect you and your sister, and it cost her almost everything, and she never told you because telling you would have undone the whole point of it.”

“Fifteen years ago,” he went on, “your mother was part of our family’s company.