CHAPTER 57: Clearing the Air

  Magda waited as the group of people in the room all exchanged glances and then her mother gave a loud sigh. She cast her mother a stunned side eye. Even her mother appeared to be annoyed with her question. Was her mother on board with murdering her cousin?

  “Jasper isn’t sane,” Lois said slowly. “We gave her a few options but she was truly quite difficult.”

  “Mom,” Magda spoke quietly, “she is my cousin, your niece.”

  “She is my niece but she is insane.” Lois retorted, a flash of her previous controlling attitude coming to surface. “She planned to assassinate you. She deserves all she has coming to her and then some. I would feel sorry for her if she hadn’t been very forthcoming about how much she plotted all of this. This wasn’t a sick person acting out based on chemical imbalances in the brain. She was aware of everything she was doing and knew how wrong it was.”