Chapter 188

Two weeks later.

The detention center smelled like bleach and concrete. Samuel Meyer sat on his narrow cot, staring at the wall across from his cell.

Fourteen days had passed since the verdict and nobody had come to see him.

Not Mia, not Ethan, not even his lawyers. He'd expected at least one of them would show up but the silence stretched on like everything else in this place.

When footsteps echoed down the hallway, Samuel looked up. A guard stopped outside his cell and jangled his keys.

"Meyer. You got a visitor."

He stood slowly and smoothed down his orange jumpsuit. Finally. It had to be one...