He Changed the Locks on My Parents’ Anniversary Gift

he’d even known there was danger.

Mom put one hand against her chest.

Claire said, “Ethan, did you set this up so we couldn’t ever help them?”

I almost answered gently.

Then I remembered the suitcases on the gravel.

“I set it up so nobody could do this.”

A white SUV came slowly down the road just then, the kind with a family sticker on the back window and continue reading …