C188 ON THE DAY OF THEIR WEDDING, SAMUEL WASN'T THE GROOM

Two weeks later.

The detention center smelled like bleach and concrete. Samuel Meyer sat on his narrow cot, staring at the wall across from his cell.

Fourteen days had passed since the verdict and nobody had come to see him.

Not Mia, not Ethan, not even his lawyers. He'd expected at least one of them would show up but the silence stretched on like everything else in this place