Whatever It Takes

Kaelia

Three days after that meeting, they finally let me see Valen.

The visitation room was just as awful as I’d pictured, gray walls, buzzing fluorescent lights, the smell of bleach and hopelessness hanging in the air. When they brought him in, my heart just shattered. He wore the standard orange jumpsuit, cuffs digging into his wrists, and he looked completely wiped out. But the second he saw m