Alicia POV

It was kinda weird, right?

I don’t know. Maybe it was paranoia, burrowing into my mind like maggots, wriggling into every crevice of my thoughts, and laying eggs of suspicion. I just found it… convenient. Too convenient.

I mean, right when Kayla and I received the worst news after a harrowing ordeal. We were about to be homeless. Evicted. Cast out like trash onto the streets, with nowhere to go and no miracle in sight.

And then, like ...