She wanted to give me hope, only to crush me back into hell even harder.
"Sarah, how much did Freya pay you?" I demanded abruptly.
Sarah's face paled. "Ava, what do you mean? I don't know her."
"Is that so?" I advanced on her. "Then how did you know Charles's girlfriend was Freya?"
Sarah was rendered speechless.
I turned away without another word.
I knew Freya's vengeance was just beginning.
Days later, during a routine inspection, the guards discovered a mobile phone beneath my bunk.
"Ava! Contraband!" the officer barked.
I froze. I'd never owned a phone.
"This isn't mine," I stated.
"Denying it? We've caught you red-handed!"
They dragged me to solitary confinement, a pitch-black cell barely 22 square feet, with no windows and only an iron door.
I was locked in there for seve
