Aria's POV
We found the grave a few days later.
Eleanor, in exchange for her cooperation and a reduced charge that Barnes had negotiated with that suggested he felt the arrangement was fair, provided the cemetery name and the plot number and the fact that she had been paying for the maintenance of it quietly for years, a fact she had not volunteered and Barnes had discovered in the financial records, and which I chose to think about carefully before deciding what it meant.
It was a small cemetery on the eastern edge of the city, older than the parts of Ravenwood that Charles had moved in — oak trees and weathered stone, the kind of place that had been full for decades and simply maintained itself quietly. The plot was near the eastern wall, in a section shaded by a tree that must have been young when Catherine was buried there and was now enormous.
The headstone was simple.
Catherine Louise Whitmore
Beloved sister and mother
She chose love
