Chapter 9

“Well, let’s get ya in ur room.” Victoria followed her in silence. She really couldn’t see anything due to there not being any lamps lit. “That hellion came through here mad as a wet cat. What ya say to her?”

“I didn’t mean to make her mad, but she is very disrespectful,” Victoria said, wondering where the big house was.

“Ya don’t say. I’ve told her bullhead cuzin that time and time again, but no, he wants us to tippy-toe round her bad behavior. It just ain’t right, the way she think she the head rooster round here, and I don’t care who ya came to town with, ur an adult.”

“So it’s normal for her to call people out of their names?” Victoria asked. As a child, she called other children out of their names, but that’s what children did. Innocent child play. Saya’s words were full of bitterness and venom.

The woman turned and faced her. “Garrison is very protective over her due to her evil brother selling her to a white family when she was small. It took him almos