Leina smirked as she got up from lying beside Sean on the bed who was snoring loudly after they had sex. She looked at the clock on her phone, but the screen suddenly lit up with a message coming from her brother Allen.

‘‘Welcome back, sister…’’

She flashed a grin as she hurriedly got dressed, then dashed out of the room while calling her brother on the phone, without taking a single glance on the man sleeping on the bed.

She has just returned, but not from a vacation to another country; rather, she has moved to the town—Staten Island, where Celestine was born and has resided for some time....