“What kind of agreement?”
“They paid the son a massive amount of money to leave the country permanently.”
“They paid him?” I echo, my voice rising in disbelief. “They literally rewarded a predator for terrorizing their own niece?”
“They explained it to me and Evelyn as removing a physical threat from her life,” he says.
“And Evelyn actually agreed to that?”
“No. She knew nothing about it until after he was paid and left the country.”
My existing physical nausea twists instantly into a deep, visceral rage. “What did she do?”
“She completely severed ties with the family. Just walked away.”
“Where did she go?”
“A small town in Canada called Georgetown. An old college friend offered her a safe place to stay where no one in the family could trace her.”
“And you stayed in contact with
