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Chapter One

Raina hid behind bales of hay as the woman talked to a horse. It would have been easy to find it funny, but nothing in her life was humorous. She pressed on her side and grimaced. She’d cut herself on something a few days before, and now it was swollen and red, and if she didn’t do anything about it, she knew she could die. She wasn’t a doctor or nurse, but even she, the dumbest, most immature retard on earth, knew the injury was infected and getting worse by the hour.

She was sometimes shocked that she wasn’t totally broken after all the years she’d lived with her aunt calling her horrible names. Her father would have called it the “Tomhave blood,” and maybe it was. Her mother had grown up Samantha Tomhave before marrying her father.

It wasn’t until after they were married that her father saw the true woman he had fallen in love with. The façade her mother had didn’t last long after the vows. If her mother hadn’t gotten pregnant with her, her father would have kicked her out. Raina knew in her heart that her mother got pregnant to trap her father.

She’d hated her mother since she was four or five. That’s when she overheard her parents fighting, and the things her mother said were truly terrible. Even at a young age, she could hear her father’s pain and know the horrible words she called her daughter.

Nothing about Samantha had been pleasant, and she’d gone out of her way to hurt people because she enjoyed it so much. Raina knew she’d never learn the extent of her mother’s deceptions before she was killed in a car accident.

Raina hadn’t felt much when her father told her about her mother’s death. If she had to stand up in front of people and talk about her mother, she’d have nothing nice to say. Even from an early age, she’d known her mother was horrible, and the less time she spent with her, the better.

Her father had been the strongest person she knew, and losing him when she was fourteen was horrifying and unbearable. Especially when the only relative left was her mother’s sister, and it made her life ten times harder.

Meredith Tomhave. Raina liked to think of her as the Wicked Witch of the West from theWizard of Ozmovie, but worse. The woman had been bouncing when she moved into the mansion. She went through every drawer and closet in the house, and Raina would overhear her say,“And it’s all mine now.”

The first time Raina had corrected her telling her it was Raina’s and not hers, she’d been slapped across the face. She’d never known violence in her life, and Meredith used that to her advantage.

Raina had thought someone in the household would correct the woman, but Meredith fired the ones loyal to Raina and hired ones that didn’t care as long as they were paid.

Raina thought the maids and cook regretted their choice of staying when Meredith had them running around and getting anything she wanted. She’d sit on her throne. It’s what Rainy called it in the main living room most days, and she didn’t get up until she had to use the restroom. Raina wondered if her aunt would piss where she was without moving if she could have figured out a way to do it.

Raina had never met a woman lazier than her aunt, and it was showing. She was chunky when she had arrived at Raina’s home, and now she was morbidly obese and could barely move. She had to buy a special chair that could hold her weight. All the woman did was eat and entertain her few white trash friends that Raina met only came for the food and not Meredith, because she’d overheard a few one time. They all found the woman disgusting.

Raina had always wondered how her aunt could have friends, and now she knew. The woman had to pay people to like her.

A jagged spear of pain hit her when she tried to move. God, what should she do? She must have made a sound because the woman came to the haystack and peeked around. Her eyes widened, and her mouth dropped open.

“Oh, my God. I thought my cat was having her babies.”

Raina tried to smile, but even that was too much for her.

The woman crouched beside her.

“My name is Mara. What’s yours?”

“I’ll tell you, but you can’t tell anyone. Promise?”