The next day after school Vanessa informed Jalissa that she wasn't going back to Winton Terrace.

"Are you for real? Van, my mother is going to be pissed! You just got lucky the last time-"

"So," she replied without bothering to look at her cousin. "I'm not going back." That morning her mother had informed her that while she was staying with aunt Callista, she was no longer allowed to go outside. It angered her that she was expected to be a prisoner again—but this ...