around Brenda'

as humming, a

, not looking at me. "Rich folks.

a little faste

ey, her own plump d

"You are Ava Hamilton. You got lost. You missed your

smug, looked scared

ket out of this hellhole.

ling, younger Ava Hamilton into Ashley

er, scrubbing a pot wit

e missing Hamilton girl years ago. She' d been

ers had dumped. She didn't know I was the one who got away

e fussed over Ashley, trying to make her look less l

ey," Brenda snapped. "Look sad, I said! Th

t it looked more like sh

This was going

, Trash, stay out of sight. Do

my eyes

t more than Brenda would see in ten l

mother look on her face. She smoothe

red, then opened the

ied, her voice dripping with false symp