Naya gestured to Brett to be calm but he wasn’t. “Why would you talk to your mother that way?! She freaking shot someone just for you! Is this how you would repay her?!”
Hailey was surprised.
“She shot someone? What do you mean?” Hailey asked.
“When you were three years old, some robbers came to our house and tried to kill you. Hailey risked her life to save yours. That’s one of the reasons she went to jail!” Brett informed her, causing Hailey confusion.
“What?! She did that?” Hailey couldn’t hide her shock. “Did you really do that?”
Naya nodded in reluctance. Hailey got deeply disappointed in Lovelyn.
“All Lovelyn does is lie to you, Hailey,” Brett informed her. “She doesn’t love you. Do not believe any word she says. Believe us instead. Stay with us. We will make you happy. We
