hospitals, shelters, clinics, and investigators because I thought Claire might be injured or dead, yet she had been taught to see every search as evidence that I wanted control. Hearing that I sounded frightened rather than furious made her question what she had been told. For the first time in months, she considered the possibility that I had actually been trying to bring her home.
Claire eventually called our Boston house because she wanted the truth, but Evelyn answered before anyone else could. Evelyn cried, told her that I was
