Chapter 9: EscapeWe are all prisoners, whether held by someone else or by our own destinies.
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After just two weeks of isolation in Neil's underground apartment, a realization struck Scarlett: She would never be safe. As much as she was starting to like him, and that it looked like he was starting to like her, she knew she would always be looking for another whiskey-breathed man in the shadows. Even worse, her family would never be safe. She could not live with that hanging over her head.
Scarlett watched Neil come and go at odd hours. His schedule was random and impossible to predict. Most of the time, he'd be gone for several hours, giving her plenty of time to get away. Once she figured that out, she knew what she had to do.
For fifteen minutes after he left, she sat on the couc
