Chapter 48

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.

“Are you sure? Would your father have let you go with her and another Alpha? How old were you?”

“Seven,” Eden mumbled. “No, you're right. If she'd wanted to contact us, my father would have kept her from us. Just like he did with Hannah and Selene since they left. I'm sure they wrote to us, but he destroyed the letters. He locked us up. For years, we were only allowed to go out with our cousin Erin, who lived with