Lyndon spoke up first, "That's right, Veda never told us any of that!"
Dad backed him at once. "She always said we could pick whatever we wanted from the garden. We wouldn't have done this otherwise. If it was really so important, how could we have gotten it that easily?"
I trembled all over. Whenever it concerned her, the words that turned against me were always spoken so lightly. Even the last chance to handle this with dignity was gone.
I showed them the static screen on my phone app. "I did tell you. I had cameras covering every corner of the garden."
Lyndon looked away, uncomfortable. "Ann said it felt wrong to be watched all the time. So I took them down."
"Yes," she said, looking soft and hurt. "It felt so unsafe to have cameras pointed this way."
"Unsafe every single da
