Chapter 4

Three days after Linda left, I got a call from Jessica.

As soon as I picked up, she went off on me. "Nydia, how could you kick my mom out? She's so old. How could you be so heartless?"

I put her on speaker so Charles could hear, too.

"Jessica, it's not what you think," Charles started to explain, but she cut him off.

She said, "Charles, I can't believe you'd do this. Mom worked so hard to raise us, and now that you have a wife, you're just forgetting where you came from, huh?"

I couldn't hold back anymore.…