Noah and Emily exchange a sheepish look at the question. They never expected this day to come and as the years rolled by, they were more firm in their assessment, but now sitting in front of their daughter, it is hard to put into words the things that they have been so sure about. It sounds so incredibly heartless, but at the time and maybe even up until this point, it has made perfect sense and made life a lot more bearable.
"I know it looks bad, but hear us out. Aurora had a tendency to wander off, not because of lack of supervision. It was just even at an incredibly young age she managed to avoid all sorts of detection. She was an incredibly happy, healthy girl but the dangerous situations she loved to get herself into were something we could never even imagine were a possibility. The
