The moment Miss Jennings heard her youngest son was going to jail, the resentment that had just begun to bubble up inside her vanished. "Kimberly, look, Seraphina is fine now anyway, and your brother hasn't done anything irreversible. Let's just let this go! No matter what, he's still your brother. You can't just stand by and watch him go to jail, can you? Just consider the fifty thousand dollars a loan to his family. He'll pay you back once he's out!"
"If it's a loan, of course it has to be repaid! Or was my aunt hoping we'd just give the money away for free?" Seraphina, who had been quiet all this time, finally spoke up. 'I've never seen Mom get this furious before! It's true what they say—even a cornered rabbit will bite.'
