Breaking Point

Valerie’s POV

The pretense continued—

But I’d graduated from wheelchair to crutches.

I had new bruises by the way, you know— the struggle new inmates had to face daily. I took it all— endured it.

Cause no one cared . I wasn’t a victim to them, not even a falsely accused one. I was just another number. A guilty one.

The guards barely acknowledged me. The nurses came only when I had been badly injur