Chapter 54 It Doesn't Matter Who You Sell To

• After a five-hour journey, Madeline finally stepped off the bus in the county town and caught another one to her hometown, Redgold Town.
• After dragging her luggage along the dusty road, she eventually arrived at her family's old, rundown house. A slightly harsh-faced woman with long, curly hair pulled back behind her ears was lazily cracking melon seeds at the doorstep.
• It was her mother, Alice Hall.