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CHAPTER ONE
Maxxy
Death.
That’s what is waiting for me here.
I’m an easy fucking target, and these bitches know it too. It’s because I don’t roll over. I don’t do what they tell me to do. I don’t bend to their whims and follow the hierarchy.
I’ve never followed the rules. I live hard, I race hard—maybe a little too hard because fleeing from the cops and driving into the side of a Walmart gets you in trouble.
The kind of trouble that gets you in a place like this.
Surrounded by women trying to take advantage of you.
Trying to use you.
To get one up on you because of the people you know.
They try to get at me and tear me down every chance they get to further their power in this god-awful place.
It’s harder than I thought.
My only saving grace is my cellmate—Selene.
Without her, death would have come for me sooner.
She’s had my back since day one.
The woman has pull, she has rank within these walls, and when she tells those bitches to back off—they do.
I owe hereverything.
Selene is here on some trumped-up drug charges, and we’re due for release around the same time, which suits us just fine. The fact she’s taken care of me in here means I owe her, and when we get out, I know she’ll want to collect.
She’s part of an organization of which her husband is a ranking official, and I know he’s working through the judicial system to help reduce her sentence. I don’t know exactly how many kilos of coke she was caught with, but I know it was substantial. She should be in a maximum security prison serving a heftier sentence than she’s carrying out. But with her husband’s pull and power, she is doing the shortest time possible.
Selene can hold her own.
No one comes near her.
In turn, they steer clear of me when I am around her.
Win-win!
She’s been a good friend to keep on my side.
And as we sit in the yard, taking in the rays of the summer sun, I lift my face to the sky to soak in what small amount of yard time we have. “It’s a beautiful day,” I murmur, more to myself than anything.
Selene snorts out a laugh. “It’s never beautiful in here, ladybug.”
My eyes drop to her.
Selene’s eyes wander around the yard—observing, checking—constantly on guard.
“You need to relax. You’re so tense.”
Selene exhales. “And you’re not tense enough. You do know that most fights break out in the yard, right?”
