(Chapter 2 continued and the beginning of Chapter 3.)
Rebecca said, “Mom, geez what’s got you so mad?” Her nine-year-old mentality was wrapped in a magazine about some boy band from England.
“Sorry, honey I was just watching another news report about Stacey Nino. I just can’t understand how a mother can not even act upset that her daughter was murdered. It seems like she’s relieved in some weird way.”
Paula responded to Rebecca in an adult like staccato without trying to hide how disturbed and offended she felt. Stacey Nino caused a welling up of emotion resonating very deeply within Paula.
She harbored a hidden, masked over hate for women, particularly mothers, manipulating situations to their benefit for selfish and apathetic reasoning.
Limelight Seduction
Perhaps for a reason,
perhaps for a season.
She smiles with cold venom,
licking at the blood to thin them.
She acts with plans long term,
she plants and sows rancid worms.
Laughing she takes the horn
and binds them with her scorn.
Gregory Prince ©
