Chapter 13

Louella slammed the telephone receiver into its cradle as she released her frustration with a scream.  Those bumbling idiots at the asylum had lost Davina! How could that happen?  She’d selected them because of their reputation for being unscrupulous enough to allow the almighty dollar that was paid by the family to influence how well they treated a patient, or how long they kept them.  The institution was basically no more than an outlet for families of wealth and power to rid themselves of troublesome family members under the guise of mental health.  In its thirty-four years of being in business, no one had ever escaped; until now.

This was a disaster. She needed to act fast. With the journal in her sister’s possession and her sister now free to seek help, there was no telling what would happen next.  She didn’t understand why things were going so badly.  Other than murdering her aunt upon impulse, she’d taken the time t