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152: Evil Blueprint

Author: Risa Mint
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-07 23:09:05

Chapter 152

Federal Women’s Correctional Facility – Days Before

The moment the steel doors of the visitation room slammed shut, it was as though the temperature of the prison shifted. It was cold, thick, and suffocating.

Tania's scream still echoed faintly in the hollow corridors as the wardens dragged her by both arms down the fluorescent-lit hallway. Her legs kicked out, her feet scraping across the tiled floor, the raw agony of her cries turning into animalistic growls. Her tangled hair whipped around her face, sweat clinging to her temples like a second skin, mascara bleeding down her cheeks like black rivers.

"Let me go!" she shrieked, voice ragged, broken, and filled with unhinged desperation. "They want to take my son! I won't let them. Never!"

“Keep quiet, you skunk!” one of the wardens barked, slamming her roughly into the wall as he adjusted his grip. His tone was sharp, irritated, not by her pain, but by the volume of it.

Tania writhed against their grip, but the strength h
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