Vanessa stiffened and pulled back to examine her mother. She'd told her mama a long time ago that she didn't like Aunt Callista's house and didn't want her as a babysitter anymore … although she hadn't told her the real reason.
Aunt Callista was her mother's half sister. Mama hadn't even known that she had a half sister until after her Daddy's death. Aunt Callista and her mother had showed up at the funeral knowing all about Leelah and her mother. And to Leelah's surprise her mother had known about them as well. There had been no love lost between that 'other' woman and her bastard—which is what Leelah's mother considered them. And so even though Leelah was nearly an adult she had never been informed about the existence of another sibling.
But once she found out about her little sister—
