Essence was in the bathroom of their Vegas hotel crying her eyes out.
Vadim was with his cousins in the basement of the casino downstairs, and she made it clear she didn’t want to know what they were doing. Her security brought her up to her room and she was finally allowed some time alone for the first time in nearly two weeks.
Seeing Eulalie when they arrived in America had been hard. Essence hoped Eulalie would be thriving and doing well but she was a shell of her former self. Slowly being weaned off the more than twenty distinct kinds of medications their mother dosed her with, caused her to have more than one mental break. She knew Essence when she was shown into Eulalie’s room, but she barely responded to simple questions. Essie wondered if she wasn’t even more drugged than before.
