Bared To You
She was more trouble than I was on a bad day—and that was saying something.
The market men and women avoided her like a plague-infested rat, and apparently, with no one else to terrorize, she had chosen my meek, gentle mother as her next victim.
My mother.
Sweet, quiet, gentle Mama—who could barely swat a fly, let alone defend herself against that hurricane of a woman. And this was the part where Edwina Danielle Jonas lost all sense of decorum. But today, she messed with the wrong person.
Because here’s the thing: no one, and I mean no one, lays a hand on my mother and walks away untouched. Not even Agatha with her foul mouth and five husbands.