Chapter 60

CORNELIUS

“We will get you out, you hear me Connor?” Aunt Vicky cried.

“We all make an appeal”, Cain said behind her and my other cousin for the part eyed me like she’d received a strike to the heart.

They all looked the same. Crestfallen after the judge’s verdict.

For the most part of it I had remained neutral during the whole court hearing, my lawyer had deemed my case as a hard one to crack. I knew it, I knew it would be a hard one the minute I uttered the words ‘I am guilty’. And when the judge had given a final verdict of twenty-five years for all my crimes including dealing with LA’s largest crime lord, I had been rather disappointed than happy.

Twenty-five years meant that there was a possibility of me getting out soon. A possibility of me seeing the outside world when I didn’t deserve it.

My family had taken the news rather horribly. While they had forgiven me for everything that had transpired in the past, I wasn’t quite ready to forgive myself.

This was my punishment, not pu