Gifts

Famke sat in the chair she had claimed in the living room watching Precious sleeping on the sofa. The exhausted child had fallen asleep on the ride home from the playpark. The car had dropped Royal off to his parent’s house, and she had brought Precious home and laid her on the sofa.

She had contemplated carrying her to her room, but she thought of the child waking up in her room alone after knowing Jubi suspected Mindy kept her locked up all the time had rankled. So instead, she had put her on the sofa with a blanket and then sat there watching her.

In the car, on the way home, Famke had sent Jubilee a quick recap of what happened and begged her to tell her parents and Royal what she had seen and suspected. If Precious’s mental health and behavior was going to be healed, they needed to talk about everything. Jubilee had agreed but reluctantly. She made it clear she was doing this only because Famke was forcing her hand. She hadn’t wanted to do it, le