CHAPTER SIXTY SEVEN.

The moment the jail door closed behind them, Emilia burst into tears. Tears more painful than the one she was shedding in the courtroom. The pain of losing to Nick made her feel less of herself. The way she was betrayed by even her lawyer made her so mad.

“This is the height of betrayal” Gregory muttered to himself as he lowered himself on the tiny bed. Just a few days and he looked like a shadow of his former self. The man who used to command respect now looked so weak and frail, even the eye bags under his eye made him look very terrible.

Finally they were both eating the fruit of this labor and it was a hard bitter one at that.

“Greg” Emilia rushed towards him, “we have to do something,anything at all to get out of this hellhole. We can’t stay here forever” she sounded so desperate but Gregroy was not listening to her, he was also lost in his own world. The world he failed to protect.

“Gregory” his wife prodded him again and he immediately jolted back to reality, “are you even list