Joelynn and Jacob were having a movie marathon but Jacob was worried. He had called his mother earlier but she hadn't picked up the phone.

"Jacob. Chill out. She's probably asleep."

"You're right. I'm sorry." He put his phone down but couldn't stop thinking that something was wrong.

Meanwhile

Lupita was sitting at the kitchen table with the woman she hated most. It was her fault that she had been assaulted by Vincent McDaniels those many years ago.

"What do you want Wanda? How did you know how to find me?" Lupita asked.

"Is that any way to treat an old friend? I told you...I'm here to talk to you about your son Jacob. As for finding you...that was easy. My brother keeps your information on his phone. You know how much he cares about you. So when he went to take a shower, I just borrowed his cell for a little bit."

"How would you know anything about my son?"

"Well I know my brother is his father...and my brother wants to have a role in his son's life. Especially since all his other kids are dead now."

Lupita scoffed at Wanda's statement. "Jacob is already a young man. He doesn't need a father."

"Everyone needs a father Lupita. It's selfish of you to say otherwise."

Lupita's eyes became thin slits as she stared at Wanda in anger, "Selfish? Me? I'm selfish. Get out of my house Wanda! It was a mistake to let you in."

"That's true. You were always too naïve." Wanda stood up as if she were getting up to go, "I'm serious about Vincent and Jacob. He wants to have his son back and he'll do anything to make it happen. I see you're worried. You should be. Two of his sons were killers. What makes you think Jacob won't turn out the same way?"

"That's enough! Jacob is nothing like Vincent McDaniels."

"Not yet...but he will be Lupita. Once Vincent gets ahold of him...he will be. It's like that story about the spider and the fly."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I want the last thing you think of before you die to be depressing."

"What?"

"Did you know that as a professional woman I have to keep all kinds of Johns from hurting me? One time a man attacked me and I ended up pregnant. I guess it was karma for leading you to Vincent. We both suffered the same fate Lupita. You gave your son a fake last name and so did I. I wasn't a good mother to my son...but I learned something from that day forward. I was never going to let another man hurt me like that again. Don't you think it's strange that both of our lives were ruined by Vincent?"

"Wanda, I think you should leave now."

"I'm not going to lie Lupita...I've hurt men who tried to hurt me after that day. It really is a kill or be killed kind of world. When I hook, I don't carry a knife or a gun...that's too messy. One of the girls taught me that poison is the best way to stop a John from getting too rough. It's fast and painless and it's something I always carry with me...just in case. If I were brave enough, I'd use it on Vincent. The thing about Vincent is that I'm not sure poison would kill him."

"Wanda...I'll call the police." Lupita was circling the table trying to get away from Wanda who had a wild look in her eyes.

"The police?" Wanda laughed, "What can they do? They can't even stop Vincent! Vincent is my brother but he's evil Lupita. I mean...really evil."

"Wanda..."

"Did you know...when I was younger, I thought he didn't have a heart because he never cared about anyone. Then I learned humans have to have hearts to survive. But I was still so sure of it...so sure that Vincent didn't have one. One day I found him sleeping on the sofa and I walked up to him very quietly...I mean so quiet even I couldn't hear myself. I pressed my ear against his chest to see if I could hear his heart beating but then he woke up. He pulled my hair and asked me, 'You want to die?' He's evil Lupita."

"I already know this Wanda."

"No, you don't understand Lupita. He's never cared about anyone...ever. His wives, his children, our parents, me..."

"I'm sure he cared about you." Lupita's voice was forced and Wanda laughed.

"My brother never cared about anyone...until he met you."

Lupita didn't know how to respond to that.

"He found me one afternoon. He actually went to the trouble of looking for his disowned sister that was so desperate for money she was selling herself. And do you know what he told me?"

Lupita shook her head.

"He said, 'I've found her Wanda! I've finally found my soul mate.' At the time I just laughed because he was already married."

"I was married too...when I met Vincent."

"Yeah he told me all about your officer husband. He went on and on about this Lupita Torres that cooked the best food and who was always smiling and laughing. He told me you were the sunshine in his dark world. You're so naïve you probably never even knew how much he wanted you."

"I didn't at first but he came around the house too often."

"My brother had a plan after he told me you turned him down."

"A plan?" Lupita didn't understand.

"Your husband died in a car accident, right?"

Lupita nodded.

Wanda gave a bitter laugh, "I feel so sorry for you. No one ever stopped to question that Officer Torres' accident was actually intentional."

"What are you trying to say Wanda?"

"I'm not trying to say anything! I'm saying it! My brother killed your husband! It was no accident that his brakes stopped working that day. Your husband was meant to die so that Vincent's plan could happen."

"Oh my God," Lupita felt as if she were going to throw up.

"God won't help you now Lupita."

"So Vincent killed Alejandro?"

"Was that your husband's name?"

Lupita nodded and Wanda sighed, "Then yes. My brother planned to have Alejandro killed."

Lupita could feel tears escaping the corners of her eyes. It had been many years since she wept for her deceased husband but the pain of knowing it was all preventable was too much to handle.

"Why would he want to kill Alejandro? What did he ever do to Vincent?" Lupita asked.

"He didn't do anything. He just had you and you were a faithful little wife. He told me you turned him down and that's what set him off Lupita. If he couldn't have you willingly, he would take you by force."

"I don't undestand."

"What isn't there to understand? Keep up with me here Lupita!"

"I'm trying to!" Lupita shouted.

"The last time he came to visit me, it was to tell me that your husband had died and you were staying at some women's shelter. He said you needed money desperately. He's the one that told me to approach you with the idea of becoming a prostitute. Me meeting you and telling you I could help you...all of that was set up by him."

Lupita sat back down at the table, she was in such shock.

"You getting into that car and being sent to his hotel room was no coincidence."

"Obviously," Lupita whispered.

"My brother gets what he wants and he wanted you Lupita."

Lupita sat at the table shaking her head trying to process everything Wanda had just told her. Vincent McDaniels had essentially ruined her life.

"That brings me to now. I haven't seen my brother since the night he attacked you. He shows up again out of the blue. This time he wants me to meet my nephew."

"Jacob?"

"Bingo! He wants to take your son under his wing. He wants to teach him how to hunt."

"Hunt?"

Wanda laughed, "Don't think it's just animals that they'll be hunting Lupita. Like I said...two of his kids were murderers."

Lupita shuddered at the thought, "So why does he want you to meet Jacob?"

"He thinks that I can try to convince Jacob to meet with him again. Apparently Jacob told him off the last time the two of them met."

"Vincent wants to keep meeting with him?"

"Your son wanted nothing to do with Vincent and that makes him even more enticing...just like his mother."

"I don't want Jacob to have anything to do with Vincent."

"I wouldn't either Lupita. My son..." Wanda's eyes began to water, "My son wasn't so lucky."

Lupita put her head in her hands and closed her eyes. She wasn't sure what she was going to do about Vincent staying away from Jacob, "I don't know what to do."

"Don't worry Lupita. This isn't something that's going to trouble you any longer."

Lupita raised her head to see Wanda standing beside her, "And why wouldn't it trouble me?"

Wanda moved so fast that Lupita wasn't able to stop her from piercing her neck with the syringe she had hidden in her purse.

Lupita gasped in shock, "What are you doing?"

"My son was killed today and I'm pretty sure Vincent is responsible. I'm sorry it's come to this, but Vincent has always had this weird obsession with you. So if I take away what he loves the most, he and I will be even. I hope you can understand. I told you before, the poison will be fast and painless. Just let it take over."

Wanda could feel the weight of Lupita's body as the poison did its job. She carefully laid Lupita's head on the table and walked over to the counter where the cupcakes and chocolate frosting were. She made herself a cupcake to go and left the house as quietly as she could.