Chapter 231

Camille sat in the back seat of the black sedan as it approached the women’s correctional facility upstate, her hands trembling with nervous energy. Two weeks had passed since her rescue, two weeks of thinking about Rose’s unexpected act of salvation, two weeks of remembering the sister she had once loved before everything went wrong between them.

Alexander sat beside her, his face showing concern and uncertainty about this decision she had made against everyone’s advice.

“Are you sure about this?” Alexander asked for the tenth time since they had left Manhattan. “Camille, you don’t owe Rose anything, not even gratitude. She tried to have you killed.”

“She also saved my life,” Camille replied, her voice steady despite the emotions churning in her chest. “Alexander, I need to see her. I need to look into her eyes and understand who she really is underneath all the hatred and manipulation.”

The correctional facility loomed ahead of them, a gray concrete structu