CIARA

“I just got report about Elsie.”

Ryan from the onset doesn’t call her aunt, though he knew she was my aunt and I like referring to her with the due honors that should be accorded to her, and by the way, she had been there like a mother to me, until she went bad recently.

I spurned to him.

I was making some quick delicacy up for us both in the kitchen when he walked in and announced the good news.

“Was she nabbed?” I posed.

I knew that was what he was going to tell me, but ...