Chapter 199

• "Your mother's death, your father's abandonment... it's all connected, but it was not his fault," Judy said, her voice low and mysterious. "He... he was arrested for your mother's death, but he is innocent. He was finally freed when the real truth was discovered... Irene misunderstood everything that happened that night. It was asthma that killed your mother."
• 'Asthma killed your mother.'
• That was major news that Ivy knew well, but the other news about her father being suspected as the murderer was really off-putting.