Chapter 1: Just wait

He did it as a favor for a friend. To house someone, a practical stranger!

He laid down the rules. No one was exempt from them once they passed the doorway.

She thought she was different, that she could defy what she was told, just as she did her whole life.

She was dead wrong.

"I don't yell. I don't hit. I don't abuse. If you break my rules you're gone."