Lee hated authority figures.
Always had. For as long as she could remember, she had been distrustful of anybody with power over her, or people who put themselves in places of authority and began giving orders. Her mother was always ordering her around, yelling at her to do this, and do that, and to stop doing this and stop doing that.
For most of the time, there were just the two of them. Her dad was often away on duty, and her mum had a full-time job waitressing at Ted’s All Night Grill & Steak Bar. The sign said All Night, but it might as well have been called Ted’s All Day & All Night Grill & Steak Bar, as the place was open 24 hours, and there was no telling when the manager might call her in for a shift. If Lee was at school when her mum was called in to work that was fine, but if s
