I wasn’t sure exactly what was coming over me, but something deep inside me whispered in the back of my mind telling me her time had come to an end. That her life was no longer needed, and it was mine to claim.

“Taylor!” Tatum’s voice called from somewhere out behind me, its warm melody wrapping around me as it once had but not touching me completely as the hatred I had for the woman I thought was my mother took precedence.

“Looks—like–you have–an audience—” ...