Some people said Lauren's own son had been set up by her—designed, step by step, to die.

Why? For the compensation money.

To be able to lay hands on her own child—how poisonous did a woman have to be?

So what happened to the Gantt family could only be called karma. Evil begets evil, and villains meet their own kind. There was no room for sympathy.

…

Morning came. A little after ten, Ray woke up and stretched.

Waking up naturally felt wonderful.

He washed up and made breakfast. One portion