Surprise, Surprise!

MADELYN

I'm at mom's tomb crying my eyes out, when I hear footsteps approaching. I'm on my knees, and my back is turned to the gate, so whoever comes in wouldn't see my face until I turn around.

“ Is that her?” I heard a loud voice ask. From what I'm thinking, they're more than two people who walked into the graveyard. At first I thought it was just people who came to visit their loved ones, but the next statement of them makes

leaves me disturbed.

“ Yes. The old lady who doesn't know when to shut her mouth. She ratted Boss out on Saturday.”

It wasn't me they came for. It was Hattie. But who were they? Who did she snitch on? I turn slightly without making a noise, and I was able to see who it was.

Three muscular men who wore dark sunshades. They stood there and silently watch Hattie trim the flowers close by. She was in danger!

“ Do we take her now, or we wait for Boss?” the first man asks. He scans the environment, and so far, I'm the onl