C16 The Plot To Eliminate Jeri

Before Aysel could leave Darien's room, her phone began to ring, calling for her attention.

She gazed at the phone on the bed, trying to figure out who was calling her.

“Aunt Clara,” Aysel mumbled as she took the phone from the bed.

Clara was an old friend of Mrs. Lucinda, Darien's mother, and the older sister of Aysel's mother, Margaret. She was a spinster who hoped to marry someone someday