Annabelle's POV

The next morning at 10 o'clock, Mr. Campbell and I left Chicago's central business district or "The Loop" where I was staying at Hyatt Palace Chicago, and drove to West Englewood where my step-family lived.

As we approached their small dilapidated, shabby house where they lived, I was struck by the poverty-stricken neighborhood. I had heard of the crimes in this area. Mr. Campbell told me that it was considered one of the most dangerous places to stay in all of Chicago. I was shocked. How did my stepmother and her children live here?

We knocked at the broken, but the patched main door, and a boy of...