“ Elly!” Tamara cried, stepping forward, tears soaking her face. “ Please…please don't do this. She's my mother.”

Eloise finally turned, her gaze cold as ice. “ And she's my family's murderer.”

Tamara shivered with fear. The rage burning through Eloise— screams different consequences for her. But the one that's deafening was knowing Dayse could be sentenced to death.

Then she'll have no one again. She'll be all alone.

Everyone's gone. Shawn has been arrested. Now her mother.

She fell to her knees. “ But she loves you Elly, she was there for you all through…”

“ Exactly.” Eloise cut her short. “ She was there to mock me, she...