hung up the phone. All of her hope and happiness at seeing her mother instantly dissipated, with regret and dread taking their place. She had just asked her grieving and fragile mother to return to the site of her son’s suicide alone. Cady felt sick at the prospect of seeing the living proof of the pain that she was causing her mother. Just because she had some morbid impulse to retrace Eric’s final steps didn’t give her the right to force her parents to relive it with her.
