Chapter 118: Must keep up the lie

Hazel blinked, momentarily stunned. “My… sister? You mean Anya? But I’ve never even met her, and you know it is because she is not my...”   “Shut it! If I say she is, then she  is." Shaina replied, her attention focused on the safe’s contents. “Someone has paid a lot of money for me to show up. I can't believe she has the same face as me, but her daughter is married into the Shaw family. If anyone can help us with a Mafia problem, it’s them.”   Hazel’s mind reeled with this new information. She’d always known there was no sister. Her mother had made it up. Someone paid her? Well, she did not care as long as they could use her. “Are you sure they’re that powerful? I mean, how do you know they can help?”   Shaina didn’t answer immediately. She was staring into the safe, her face a mask of shock and disbelief. “No,” she whispered. “No, no, no!”   “Mom? What’s wrong?” Hazel asked, alarmed by her mother’s sudden panic.   Shaina began tearing through the bedroom, yanking open drawe