**Adaline's POV**
I never thought life would turn out this way. I don't think anyone ever expects to go through trauma and hard times, but I still never thought I would be standing in a court room, being charged with my father's murder. It didn't take long for France to request I be flown back home and stand trial here, and it terrified me how fast it all happened. Two days ago I was happy, hopeful, in love. Yesterday I was making amends with my elder brother. Today I am in France, sitting here while the lawyers argue and I think about the s**t I have been through the passed fifteen years of my life.
My memories played in my mind like a movie. Reel and reel of pain and confusion, crying and screaming that someone save me and no one listened. Finding release in drugs, then self harming,
