The world felt like it stopped spinning the moment those words fell from the officer’s mouth.

“You’re under arrest.”

My lungs forgot how to work. The cold air that drifted through the night seeped into my bones as if the words themselves had frozen me solid.

I didn’t even blink. I just stood there, caught between the back door of Calloway Banks and the flashing red lights of the police car parked in front of me.

I didn’t even notice the door behind me creak open ...