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about my grandmother," I say, disarming my mother's car alarm. Netta’s son rigged it a bit to get me around for the time being but said that I’d need to invest some cash to get it done right. "She's just fine."
                  "Are you sure about that, little queen?" Esmeralda asks, her two remaining pet crows flying from their cages and landing on her shoulders. There’s something about the way she's questioning my grandmother's well being that sends a chill down my spine. Where is Mama?
    "And I’m sorry about how my pets reacted to their home being burglarized, but you do know how strong the trespassing laws are in Los Angeles County ,” Esmeralda says, petting the evil birds. “It seems they possess the souls of police officers who know how to serve justice when we need be."
                  No doubt she's got a few officers on her payroll. That would explain how she's able to manipulate the drug game on this side of Compton without getting caught. I wonder if the officers knew part of their cut would come at the cost of their souls.
    "Burglarized?” I say. “It was more like an attempt to save kidnapped souls, or have you forgotten about Misty and Emilio's trapped spirits inside of your new snake pets?"
                  "Oh don't worry about them, mi petite," Rousseau says, stepping in front of his woman. "Our new houseguests are being treated like gods, and fed like them, too." Rousseau looks past me toward the back gate where Lexi walks out, growling at the diabolic duo that turned her against Mama.
                  "Lexi, no!" I scream, worried for Mama's dog. Ever since she attacked Mama Lexi’s been hell-bent on making it up to her owner. "Stay girl; stay!"
                  "No, let the little bitch come on over,” Rousseau says, showing his fangs off with a growl of his own.
                  “The signs are posted," Esmeralda says, pointing to the red and white squares propped up in her kitchen window. "There's one on the back door too, just in case."
                  “We already warned you about trespassing on our property," Rousseau says, whistling at Lexi who’s ready to attack.
                  “Our property?” I repeat. “Do you know how many men have laid in that same bed you’re trying to claim as yours? And you’re barely a human or have you forgotten? How the hell are you going to own property?”
                  “There’s more than one way to stake your claim in this world,” Rousseau says, calming down. I see he’s still enough of a man to have his ego checked.
                  “Be careful, little girl. You don’t want to get in over your head, speaking about grown woman shit when you’re as fresh as a newborn baby,” Esmeralda says, sniffing the air. “Back in the day girls who overstepped their boundaries were swiftly put in their place.” Esmeralda brings her right index finger to her left ear and slowly moves it across her throat to the other side. 
                  “If you lay a hand on my grandmother’s head or any other part of her I will kill you, Esmeralda. Believe that,” I say, hearing Esmeralda’s psychic threat loud and clear. 
                  “I think I just heard a threat, Rousseau. Did you?”
                  “Yes I did, and so did your pets,” he says, resuming his pit bull status.
                  Lexi charges across the front yard before I can stop her. If she dies it’ll be on my head.
                  “Lexi, stop!” I shout but it’s no use. Lexi’s already at the driveway split between my grandparent’s property and Esmeralda’s.
                  “Tell your grandmother we said hello,” Esmeralda says, retreating back inside and taking her animal farm with her. As she closes the door Esmeralda looks down at the growling canine and