It just took four more steps to reach the outside porch.  Teary-eyed, fearful and pregnant Celia carefully tiptoed past the shimmering chandelier hoping not to awake her aggressors.  If they suspected anything, both he and Miss Sunshine would chain her to the bed and leave her there til late afternoon; just in time for her to serve them lunch. 

A nightmarish life of hard work and ridicule was just the everyday routine that Celia faced.  She was handpicked as the house servant for both Capn' and Sunshine Knolls. 

 Although, life was harsh,  through her craftiness,  she managed to secretly visit her lover in the back woods of the farm.  There they planned and strategized a way to escape. 

Weeks later, on speculation of the two becoming close, Capn arranged for Jon DePaul - to be sold to another sharecropper.  Now bitterly heartbroken  with baby on the way, and rampant scorns from Ms. Sunshine, who suspected it was her husband's baby - Celia had nowhere else to go but to run and find Jon DePaul herself.  Celia successfully made it out of the house but when she reached a certain point she heard the snarling dogs, 18 in all ferociously barking and racing towards her location. 

In her state of panic, she looked up to the heavens waiting for an answer, a sign or a hope.  She was petrified of how the dog's piercing teeth would feel ripping and reeling into her soft caramel skin.   "Let them take me, let them take me just like they took my mother.  Let them, just let them, I can't go on" 

She closed her eyes and in the midst of all the madness, something different happened that she did not expect.