Chapter 27
For the first three days after his visit with his brother and the clergy, all was normal for Michael McDuff. He went about his quiet life in Fodelson Prison doing everything asked of him, keeping his head down and avoiding attention.
Attention from the guards was never a good thing.
On the morning of the fourth day, the fractures began to show.
When Michael McDuff woke that morning, he knew his usual daily workload was expected of him. After all, he’d been one of the best examples of the model prisoner since his arrival.
Calm and relatively happy, cooperative with guards or chaplains or doctors.
Always doing his duty to repay the debt he owed for the terrible crime he’d tried to commit.
The crime he still didn’t quite understand.
That day, Michael only sat on his hammock
