Chapter Twenty-FourPresent day
Kiri's room was small and cold. A thick layer of dust coated the floor and the small washbasin was cracked and dirty. Amethyst Tower was quieter than Onyx. The layout and design of the cells were identical, but unlike the overcrowded Onyx, sixty percent of Amethyst's cells stood empty.
There were a few scattered female inmates in Emerald Tower, those who had been famous or rich before their crimes, who could afford to buy their way out of the damp, single-s*x towers. Kiri hadn't been one of those, and so had found herself in the eerily silent Amethyst Tower. She was aware of the other women who sat gloomily in the cells around hers but made little effort to talk to them. She didn't know if it was simple paranoia, but she felt resented by the other women. Wh
