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Chapter 9: Lost A Friend

作者: Judith C-Tagoe
last update 最終更新日: 2025-09-04 01:12:49

Diana's POV

Lucas had told me to give him a week. A week, and he’d find another way.

I clung to those words like they were a lifeline. Every sunrise, I convinced myself the warden would call my name, lead me to the visitation room, and there he would be, sitting tall, suit crisp, eyes steady, promising freedom.

For seven days, I carried that hope like fragile glass in my hands.

"Hey, Diana."

I lifted my head. Rebecca leaned against the doorway of our cell, grinning as though she had just heard the funniest joke in the world.

"Who was that who came to see you? Your boyfriend?"

I almost laughed. "I don’t have a boyfriend," I said flatly.

"Oh, come on," she teased, stepping inside and flopping onto my bed as though she owned it. "You had a visitor. A well-dressed one too. Spill the beans."

"Leave me alone, Rebecca."

But she only scooted closer, tilting her head and giving me those wide puppy eyes. She could be suffocating, the way she hovered, clung, chattered. She never knew when to sto
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