Chapter 314

Piper's POV

The prison gates groaned open like the jaws of some ancient beast.

Light hit my face for the first time in five years. It should have felt warm.

It didn't.

The clothes I wore when I entered-now sagged off my body, hanging loose over skin stretched too tightly across brittle bones.

I limped forward, one foot dragging behind the other. Not because I wanted pity.

Because that's all my bod