Chapter 86

Jayden’s POV.

The siren’s whine cut through the night, a cruel song accompanying my spiral. It kept going on and on and on, like a broken record in my head.

He’d take everything. I’d be laughed at, forgotten, and Slade would become the new big shot. I could take the humiliation now, I could be the joke, but I needed to be free to fight back later.

Prison, though, was a cage I might never escape—not with Slade pulling the strings.

All my hope, I had given Allison. ...