“I don’t have time.”
The fear in her voice made me look up.
“What do you mean?”
“They’re sending me away tomorrow.”
“Where?”
“I don’t know. Chloe said a van is coming at nine.”
I felt something inside me harden.
“Did she name the facility?”
“She called it Willow something.”
“Willow Haven?”
Mother nodded.
I knew the name.
Willow Haven was a private memory-care facility nearly three hours away. It was expensive, isolated, and notorious among elder-law attorneys for making family visits difficult. Two years earlier, the state had investigated complaints that residents were being heavily sedated without adequate medical justification.