So, have you figured out a plan? Lauren asked curiously.

Cassandra replied, her voice unhurried, Im working on it, step by step. Once I back her into a corner with no way out, itll be easy.

There was no urgency in her tone; instead, she seemed to savor the process. Watching Roses daily descent into frustrationher growing despair, her desperate attempts to garner sympathy, the occasional look of fear in her eyesit entertained Cassandra, as if it were all a ...