“Your father and I loved one another more than I can even explain,” Devi said quietly. “I walked away from my family for him and he defied his mother to marry me. Without the love we had, we could never have weathered the storms that buffeted our marriage.”

“Exactly,” Emma said. “And when he died, you couldn’t live without him.”

“Losing your father was the worst day of my life,” Devi said, “but the guilt is what crushed ...