Tatiana’s POV

They said silence was survival.

Charles used to say that too always with that quiet smile that made you think he was teaching you how to win, when really he was teaching you how to obey.

Now I sat in a freezing cell where silence was the only thing that answered me back.

It had been a few weeks since the arrest. The world had moved on, the headlines had shifted to new scandals, the cameras had stopped flashing outside the courthouse. But here, time stood still.

The ceiling ...