Chapter 16, Della Villa:
Life had not gone as Della expected. She would swiftly learn it rarely did for anyone that called the shards and cracks home.
Once Brett’s treachery was discovered, she assumed the snakes had been cleared from her little patch of paradise and her family remained safe. She would be wrong. The explosion shortly after the poison attempt proved there was more happening than she understood.
She never wanted to kill another human let alone her brother. Della blamed the mayor, her mother, for the way she turned out.
She needed out of the gilded cage the mayor locked the entire family up in—or at least the girls. It always chapped her that the boys ventured out into the world once they reached ten seasons old, while the girls of the family remained virtual prisoners of
