charm the night Laura disappeared.
If Laura had possessed it afterward, then Dad had absolutely seen her again.
There was no doubt anymore.
Dolly watched me pick up my bag.
“Where are you going?”
“To ask my father why he allowed my mother to die believing her daughter never came home.”
Dad was watching television when I entered his room at the nursing facility.
“Emelia. You’re early this week.”
Without answering, I placed the wooden sunflower on his tray.
His expression changed immediately.
“Where did you get that?”
“Did you
