Cora-Seven Months Later
“Release day Your Highness. Aren’t you excited? Think they saved your throne for you?” The same guard who has taunted me for the last year stands ready to take me out. My sentence is over today.
Stepping outside, I had no hopes of anyone being here other than the car that Eden said Mr. Jacoby would send for me. It isn’t here either.
I sigh knowing I will have no choice but to wait. It’s not like Kendra or my mother are going to come collect me. And Dad….apparently he’s on a very tight leash somewhere for a nasty group of loan sharks. He only managed to visit once about three months ago. He was thin and looked twenty years older.
Mom was the same way. She was working as a waitress in some crappy diner. Said she lives with three other women in some kind of halfw
