Chapter166 Out of the Shadows

Scarlett’s POV I had been in prison for five years. Sometimes it felt like five years, sometimes a lifetime. In the beginning, I’d counted the days on the wall, scratching a tiny mark with a broken pen lid, but the habit faded. There was no point in keeping track when every day was the same as the last. No one here cared about my past, about the woman I’d once been. To them, I was just Scarlett, the girl who’d fallen from grace, the one whose only use was to be their punching bag. I was Ethan’s enemy, Katelyn’s “villain.” To them, that made me an easy target. The prison was always loud and always cold. My cellmates made it clear from the start that they would never be my friends. They picked on the weakest first, and even after all this time, I still felt like the weakest. Some mornings, I woke up to find my food had been stolen or spat in. If I asked the guards for help, they turned away or laughed. The only time I got any real peace was when I was left alone in the shower, if I was l