All Chapters of CAGED WOLF' inmate 0-7-7-4-1 (r18): Chapter 21

POV: RickiShe came on a Tuesday, and she looked exactly the same, which was the part that broke him. The world outside had kept going without touching her at all, like grief only worked on people behind glass.Ricki sat down across from her and felt the months collapse into nothing. Marisol's face was the one he'd carried behind his eyes every night since the verdict, dark hair pulled back the same careless way, the same small scar above her eyebrow from a bike wreck when she was twelve. But up close, the sameness cracked. She was thinner, the kind of thin that came from forgetting to eat rather than choosing to, shadows sitting heavy under her eyes that no concealer had fully covered.She wore the jacket he'd bought her two Christmases ago, faded now at the elbows, denim with an embroidered patch on the shoulder she'd picked herself and made him buy under protest, arguing it was too plain for the price tag. Seeing it now felt like being handed a photograph of a life that had stopped