“How is her case?” Pamela asked, staring pensively at Thomas as they stood outside the station. The visiting time had elapsed and Ashley was back in her cell.

Pamela looked pinched and pale. The severity of this situation weighed down on her.

Thomas heaved. He bowed his head, hiding his face from her. The sorrow in her eyes gnawed at his heart.

In the months that he had known her, he had come to adore her. What had started as a means to an end, had turned to his end in love. ...