He nodded again. “So you think that perhaps there has been some sort of foul play?”
She shook her head, denying that possibility. “No, I think it has something to do with her going through some sort of midlife crisis. She turned fifty a couple of months ago, and until that time she was completely normal.”
Stone took a sip of his coffee. He remembered what
happened when his mother turned fifty. She decided that
she wanted to go back to school and start working outside of the home. His father almost had a fit because he was
one of those traditional men who believed a woman’s work was in the home raising kids. But his mother had made up her mind about what she wanted to do and nothing was
going to stop her. Since his baby sister, Delaney, had gone off to college and there weren’t any kids left at home to
raise, his father had finally given in.
He shifted his thoughts to Madison’s mother. Personally, he saw nothing abnormal with a woman disappearing in the
wilds of Montana with a man, if that’s what she wanted to
do. However, from the worried expression on Madison’s
face, she evidently thought otherwise.
“So what do you plan on doing when you find her?” he
asked curiously. After all, she was still the daughter and her mother was still the mother. He had learned from
experience that parents felt they could do whatever pleased
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