If anyone ever confronted her, she would throw a massive tantrum, crying, screaming, threatening to hang herself, and pulling every trick in the book until people got so fed up they did not dare hold her accountable. If she ran into someone truly tough, she would immediately switch to weeping and begging, swearing to high heaven that she would never do it again.
That is, she would never do it again to the tough ones. For families that were easy to bully, her awful temperament remained exactly the same.
Early in the winter, when he saw this mother-son duo loitering near the house, Asher had already grown suspicious. But after not seeing them for a while, he had brushed it off. He never expected Buck and his mother to show up now, even going so far as to sneak over the fence into his yard.
